The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 páginas |
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... declension , or never thought of the matter . An old Anglo - Saxon , indeed , would have used the genitive of land ... declensions of the Anglo - Saxon ( which is exemplified in the note just re- ferred to ) , was the one that lingered ...
... declension , or never thought of the matter . An old Anglo - Saxon , indeed , would have used the genitive of land ... declensions of the Anglo - Saxon ( which is exemplified in the note just re- ferred to ) , was the one that lingered ...
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... declension which lingered longest was the simplest of those that had been used for Masculine Substantives , a declension giving a genitive singular in -es , and a nominative plural in -as . The plural end- ing was , as we have seen ...
... declension which lingered longest was the simplest of those that had been used for Masculine Substantives , a declension giving a genitive singular in -es , and a nominative plural in -as . The plural end- ing was , as we have seen ...
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... Declensions of Adjec- tives are confounded ; and the Feminine terminations of adjec- tives and pronouns are neglected . We have seen , in the Chron- icle , the inflectional terminations of the adjectives disappearing altogether ...
... Declensions of Adjec- tives are confounded ; and the Feminine terminations of adjec- tives and pronouns are neglected . We have seen , in the Chron- icle , the inflectional terminations of the adjectives disappearing altogether ...
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... declension . It is observable , likewise , that writers evidently had not yet become aware , how thorough a remodelling of arrangement was called for by the new forms which the nouns had assumed . A few specific features should be ...
... declension . It is observable , likewise , that writers evidently had not yet become aware , how thorough a remodelling of arrangement was called for by the new forms which the nouns had assumed . A few specific features should be ...
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... declensions . We have also the genitive or posses- sive but this case itself , partly superseded by the preposition from the earliest stages of English , has had its application re- stricted still further by modern usage . Though we may ...
... declensions . We have also the genitive or posses- sive but this case itself , partly superseded by the preposition from the earliest stages of English , has had its application re- stricted still further by modern usage . Though we may ...
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