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... dialects admitted by the German savant may find room in our three comprehensive linguistic , Genealogic , Historic and Geographic Types , founded on the Pentateuch , Zendavesta , Vedas and Popol Vuh - on Homer , Herodotus , Strabo ...
... dialects admitted by the German savant may find room in our three comprehensive linguistic , Genealogic , Historic and Geographic Types , founded on the Pentateuch , Zendavesta , Vedas and Popol Vuh - on Homer , Herodotus , Strabo ...
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... dialect ? II . Where did the Anglo - Saxon dialect , mother of English , originate ? III . What was the language in England from A.D. 597 , when the Anglo - Saxon code of Ethelbert , King of Kent , was written- to A. D. 1154 , when the ...
... dialect ? II . Where did the Anglo - Saxon dialect , mother of English , originate ? III . What was the language in England from A.D. 597 , when the Anglo - Saxon code of Ethelbert , King of Kent , was written- to A. D. 1154 , when the ...
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... dialect , formed by the three Gotho- Germanic tribes . To answer the three other questions , when there are Gotho - Germanic writings , we select , from century to century , Anglo - Saxon , English and American writers of different ...
... dialect , formed by the three Gotho- Germanic tribes . To answer the three other questions , when there are Gotho - Germanic writings , we select , from century to century , Anglo - Saxon , English and American writers of different ...
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... dialect through its transition into the present composite English language , we infer , that Ethelbert of A. D. 600 could hardly have conversed with Ethelred II . , A.D. 1000 ; that Egbert of A.D. 828 could not have easily read ...
... dialect through its transition into the present composite English language , we infer , that Ethelbert of A. D. 600 could hardly have conversed with Ethelred II . , A.D. 1000 ; that Egbert of A.D. 828 could not have easily read ...
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... dialect has added from six to sixty- eight per cent . of Greco - Latin since Alfred the Great must prove interesting to the English - speaking millions all over the globe . Of all sciences , the sublimest - language - is the most compli ...
... dialect has added from six to sixty- eight per cent . of Greco - Latin since Alfred the Great must prove interesting to the English - speaking millions all over the globe . Of all sciences , the sublimest - language - is the most compli ...
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Page 358 - Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Page 396 - Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.
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Page 358 - WILT thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony ? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her, in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live ? The man shall answer, I Will.
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Page 373 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
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