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... LITERATURE IN YALE COLLEGE . CA AUC ! 80 BODLEIANA LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . 302 1880 . LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS , STAMFORD A BRIEF HISTORY LANGUAGES KINDRED TO THE ENGLISH, §§ 1-13.
... LITERATURE IN YALE COLLEGE . CA AUC ! 80 BODLEIANA LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . 302 1880 . LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS , STAMFORD A BRIEF HISTORY LANGUAGES KINDRED TO THE ENGLISH, §§ 1-13.
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... literature and society . It is represented now by the Romaic , or Modern Greek . The Albanian , spoken in a large part of modern Greece , is supposed to be a descendant of the ancient Illyrian . - § 5. IV . The LATIN . This is often ...
... literature and society . It is represented now by the Romaic , or Modern Greek . The Albanian , spoken in a large part of modern Greece , is supposed to be a descendant of the ancient Illyrian . - § 5. IV . The LATIN . This is often ...
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... literature , including the Nibelungen . Nôt with its attendant epics , and the lyric poetry of the Minnesinger . The New High German is the language of Luther's Bible - version and of all German literature since the Reformation . § 11 ...
... literature , including the Nibelungen . Nôt with its attendant epics , and the lyric poetry of the Minnesinger . The New High German is the language of Luther's Bible - version and of all German literature since the Reformation . § 11 ...
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... literature since the latter part of the thirteenth century . The Flemish , spoken in Flanders , is a dialect of the Dutch . ( e . ) The Low German , strictly so called ( or Plattdeutsch ) , the idiom of the common people in Northern ...
... literature since the latter part of the thirteenth century . The Flemish , spoken in Flanders , is a dialect of the Dutch . ( e . ) The Low German , strictly so called ( or Plattdeutsch ) , the idiom of the common people in Northern ...
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... literatures . Even in South - western Europe , it is doubtful whether the ancient Etruscan belonged to our family . It is perfectly clear that the ancient Iberian did not belong to it , which was once the prevailing language of the ...
... literatures . Even in South - western Europe , it is doubtful whether the ancient Etruscan belonged to our family . It is perfectly clear that the ancient Iberian did not belong to it , which was once the prevailing language of the ...
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