An Historical Sketch of the Progress and Present State of Anglo-Saxon Literature in EnglandLumley, 1840 - 180 pages |
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... Characters ; collects materials for an Anglo - Saxon Dic- tionary and Grammar - Laurence Nowel , transcribes the Saxon Laws , afterwards published by Lambarde ; his Saxon - English Dictionary , & c.- Fox's Saxon Gospels , Preface ...
... Characters ; collects materials for an Anglo - Saxon Dic- tionary and Grammar - Laurence Nowel , transcribes the Saxon Laws , afterwards published by Lambarde ; his Saxon - English Dictionary , & c.- Fox's Saxon Gospels , Preface ...
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... character , and they are derived apparently from the ancient Runes . These are , p , th , 8 , dh , and p , equivalent to our w . * What we term the Saxon alphabet was that in general use in this country from the sixth to the thirteenth ...
... character , and they are derived apparently from the ancient Runes . These are , p , th , 8 , dh , and p , equivalent to our w . * What we term the Saxon alphabet was that in general use in this country from the sixth to the thirteenth ...
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... characters and events of a remote period . Hence we would willingly believe that Ælfric the grammarian , whom we shall presently find so ably defending the Anglo - Saxon church against the heretical doctrines attempted to be imposed ...
... characters and events of a remote period . Hence we would willingly believe that Ælfric the grammarian , whom we shall presently find so ably defending the Anglo - Saxon church against the heretical doctrines attempted to be imposed ...
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... character of the language of the people whose history it records . Some Anglo - Saxon charters recently pub- lished , * from the Chartulary of Cirencester Abbey , establish the fact , that the orthography of the language was in the * By ...
... character of the language of the people whose history it records . Some Anglo - Saxon charters recently pub- lished , * from the Chartulary of Cirencester Abbey , establish the fact , that the orthography of the language was in the * By ...
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... character at least a century older , and even may be termed Semi - Saxon . The Vision of Piers Plowman by no means appears to belong to the period in which it is supposed to have been written : and its recent editor seems to have ...
... character at least a century older , and even may be termed Semi - Saxon . The Vision of Piers Plowman by no means appears to belong to the period in which it is supposed to have been written : and its recent editor seems to have ...
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