English etymology; or, A derivative dictionary of the English language |
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... Romans ) with his fkin punctured in a variety of grotefque figures , and then stained with woad to make him appear the more horrible in war , to a modern prince , or potentate , dreffed in all the enfigns of royalty the native nakedness ...
... Romans ) with his fkin punctured in a variety of grotefque figures , and then stained with woad to make him appear the more horrible in war , to a modern prince , or potentate , dreffed in all the enfigns of royalty the native nakedness ...
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... Romans un- doubtedly planted among us , and the feminaries which they founded , tho ' now utterly unknown , were , as I may call them , the cradles and nurseries of our own tongue . Whoever then does but confider our language , as being ...
... Romans un- doubtedly planted among us , and the feminaries which they founded , tho ' now utterly unknown , were , as I may call them , the cradles and nurseries of our own tongue . Whoever then does but confider our language , as being ...
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... Romans are totally different from those two languages , as now fpoken by the prefent inhabitants of thofe countries .: Such furprising revolutions have those two tall pillars , thofe firm and graceful fapporters of the English language ...
... Romans are totally different from those two languages , as now fpoken by the prefent inhabitants of thofe countries .: Such furprising revolutions have those two tall pillars , thofe firm and graceful fapporters of the English language ...
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... Roman writers . Let me then only add a few reflexions on the antiquity of the Hebrew tongue . Whenever we speak of the Hebrew , we mean the language , unconnected with writing ; for undoubtedly the language itself , like that of all ...
... Roman writers . Let me then only add a few reflexions on the antiquity of the Hebrew tongue . Whenever we speak of the Hebrew , we mean the language , unconnected with writing ; for undoubtedly the language itself , like that of all ...
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... Romans at their landing faw it was not only inhabited , but inhabited by a people of a very warlike race ; as we fhall find prefently in the Fourth article : -but let us firft endeavour to trace out those inhabitants , and fee , whether ...
... Romans at their landing faw it was not only inhabited , but inhabited by a people of a very warlike race ; as we fhall find prefently in the Fourth article : -but let us firft endeavour to trace out those inhabitants , and fee , whether ...
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