An Old Man's Thoughts about Many ThingsBell and Daldy, 1862 - 261 strán (strany) |
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... Greek , Latin , and French ; French by the way more frequently wrong than right ; Italian , on the increase since the battles of Magenta and Solferino ; and Chinese and Japanese are plainly on the way to join in the medley . For these ...
... Greek , Latin , and French ; French by the way more frequently wrong than right ; Italian , on the increase since the battles of Magenta and Solferino ; and Chinese and Japanese are plainly on the way to join in the medley . For these ...
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... chapter named , and sometimes Greek and Latin and other languages printed with occasional mistakes ; and how much trouble this has caused the printer , and whether it has not sometimes almost brought 8 TO MY READERS .
... chapter named , and sometimes Greek and Latin and other languages printed with occasional mistakes ; and how much trouble this has caused the printer , and whether it has not sometimes almost brought 8 TO MY READERS .
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... Greek , Latin , German or any other , or without asking the parson of his parish the meaning of any of my words . The words as I said will be English , the style plain and simple , but not dull , and the matter will be such as concerns ...
... Greek , Latin , German or any other , or without asking the parson of his parish the meaning of any of my words . The words as I said will be English , the style plain and simple , but not dull , and the matter will be such as concerns ...
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... Greek and Roman schools , and place it among the things which I desi- derate . I recommend the matter to the industry of some learned German , with a request that he will not be sparing in his references and citations ; and when he has ...
... Greek and Roman schools , and place it among the things which I desi- derate . I recommend the matter to the industry of some learned German , with a request that he will not be sparing in his references and citations ; and when he has ...
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... Greek characters , which had been introduced into Gaul by the Greeks of Marseille ; but they did not commit their verses to writing , though they used writing for ordinary purposes . Caesar suggests two reasons why the Druids did not ...
... Greek characters , which had been introduced into Gaul by the Greeks of Marseille ; but they did not commit their verses to writing , though they used writing for ordinary purposes . Caesar suggests two reasons why the Druids did not ...
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