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... name is mentioned . I have for two reasons retained the old - fashioned spelling of some names found in classical authors and elsewhere . In the first place ( to give an instance ) the general reader is , even now , more accustomed to ...
... name is mentioned . I have for two reasons retained the old - fashioned spelling of some names found in classical authors and elsewhere . In the first place ( to give an instance ) the general reader is , even now , more accustomed to ...
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... name in ancient Greek or Latin authors ? To discard an old and adopt a new system of spelling on pretence of securing accurate pronuncia- tion , is simply to mislead . No one who reads English history supposes Lewis to be an accurate ...
... name in ancient Greek or Latin authors ? To discard an old and adopt a new system of spelling on pretence of securing accurate pronuncia- tion , is simply to mislead . No one who reads English history supposes Lewis to be an accurate ...
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... names of the principal geographical features - The names of the minor geo- graphical features - Evidence of certain peculiarities of English pronunciation - No real doubt what was the language of the ancient Britons ; its resemblance to ...
... names of the principal geographical features - The names of the minor geo- graphical features - Evidence of certain peculiarities of English pronunciation - No real doubt what was the language of the ancient Britons ; its resemblance to ...
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... to those chroniclers who have handed down to us their version of the Saxon conquest . Of such chroniclers the name is Legion : the scope of their C 1 works is somewhat ambitious ; they generally aim at POPULAR PREJUDICES . 17.
... to those chroniclers who have handed down to us their version of the Saxon conquest . Of such chroniclers the name is Legion : the scope of their C 1 works is somewhat ambitious ; they generally aim at POPULAR PREJUDICES . 17.
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... names perhaps not very dissimilar . Both , too , give an account of a miraculous bell , but each gives his own version . There is nevertheless a cer- tain amount of similarity between the two biographies ; and , on the supposition that ...
... names perhaps not very dissimilar . Both , too , give an account of a miraculous bell , but each gives his own version . There is nevertheless a cer- tain amount of similarity between the two biographies ; and , on the supposition that ...
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