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... ENGLISH PROSE : its Elements , History , and Usage . By JOHN EARLE , M.A. , Rector of Swanswick , formerly Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College , Professor of Anglo - Saxon in the University of Oxford , Author of The Philology of the English ...
... ENGLISH PROSE : its Elements , History , and Usage . By JOHN EARLE , M.A. , Rector of Swanswick , formerly Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College , Professor of Anglo - Saxon in the University of Oxford , Author of The Philology of the English ...
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... English Students , to facilitate the practice of Translating from English into French . With Notes by G. A. NEVEU . - KEY to the same , 38. 6d . 19mo . cloth , 58 . A PRACTICAL GUIDE to the STUDY of the ITALIAN LANGUAGE . By A. BIAGGI ...
... English Students , to facilitate the practice of Translating from English into French . With Notes by G. A. NEVEU . - KEY to the same , 38. 6d . 19mo . cloth , 58 . A PRACTICAL GUIDE to the STUDY of the ITALIAN LANGUAGE . By A. BIAGGI ...
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... English children , especially of working folks ' children , has become a discipline of irreve- rence and self - conceit . The English , Mr. Froude adds , are now peculiarly sensitive about the respect paid to their country abroad ...
... English children , especially of working folks ' children , has become a discipline of irreve- rence and self - conceit . The English , Mr. Froude adds , are now peculiarly sensitive about the respect paid to their country abroad ...
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... English race thanks the gods that it is not poetical . It also thanks them that it is " practical " ; which does not now mean that its workmanship is skilful and sound and its dealings honourable , but only that it knows how to buy in ...
... English race thanks the gods that it is not poetical . It also thanks them that it is " practical " ; which does not now mean that its workmanship is skilful and sound and its dealings honourable , but only that it knows how to buy in ...
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... English race , facile princeps in all practical matters , ...... are also the first in poetry ? " Taine , I think , in a great measure supplies an answer to the question " how it has come to pass . " I conceive that the answer to the ...
... English race , facile princeps in all practical matters , ...... are also the first in poetry ? " Taine , I think , in a great measure supplies an answer to the question " how it has come to pass . " I conceive that the answer to the ...
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