The Quarterly Review, Volume 255William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir John Murray IV, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1930 |
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Page 77
... language , and that whatever purists may urge from patriotic motives , philologically the language is essentially hybrid . For this reason , it is impracticable to classify Modern English as the descendant of a definite parent tongue ...
... language , and that whatever purists may urge from patriotic motives , philologically the language is essentially hybrid . For this reason , it is impracticable to classify Modern English as the descendant of a definite parent tongue ...
Page 81
... language : that is , regulative rather than innovative , selecting not rejecting the spontaneous judgments of word - sense . If it could be proved that the English language has now reached the limit of its progress , and is in no way in ...
... language : that is , regulative rather than innovative , selecting not rejecting the spontaneous judgments of word - sense . If it could be proved that the English language has now reached the limit of its progress , and is in no way in ...
Page 83
... language is capable in the same measure of these freaks of style . This is what Professor Otto Jespersen , the Danish philologist , says : ' I do not deny that somewhat parallel instances of stilted language may be culled from the daily ...
... language is capable in the same measure of these freaks of style . This is what Professor Otto Jespersen , the Danish philologist , says : ' I do not deny that somewhat parallel instances of stilted language may be culled from the daily ...
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