Notes and Queries, Volume 97Oxford University Press, 1898 |
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... fact being forgotten or ignored that each word has its own syntax . And here note the perversity of writers in not only using than where it is improper , as I have shown , but not using it where it is proper . After other our grammars ...
... fact being forgotten or ignored that each word has its own syntax . And here note the perversity of writers in not only using than where it is improper , as I have shown , but not using it where it is proper . After other our grammars ...
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... fact of Sir John More bearing quartered arms from his birth is evidence of ancestry now lost record of , and this is per- haps to be accounted for from the fact of the Chancellor's execution taking place when his family was ...
... fact of Sir John More bearing quartered arms from his birth is evidence of ancestry now lost record of , and this is per- haps to be accounted for from the fact of the Chancellor's execution taking place when his family was ...
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... fact that the rivulet , the Bayswater , was cut off and deflected into a sewer , being , no doubt , bayard in colour and so unfit for ornamental purposes ( see 8th S. xii . 349 , ' Kensington Canal ' ) . I find the reference " 8th S. ii ...
... fact that the rivulet , the Bayswater , was cut off and deflected into a sewer , being , no doubt , bayard in colour and so unfit for ornamental purposes ( see 8th S. xii . 349 , ' Kensington Canal ' ) . I find the reference " 8th S. ii ...
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... fact , namely , that Pope assisted Thomson in the revision of The Seasons , ' rests not , as all Thomson's modern editors have tury and on the testimony of authenticated hand- supposed , on the traditions of the eighteenth cen- writing ...
... fact , namely , that Pope assisted Thomson in the revision of The Seasons , ' rests not , as all Thomson's modern editors have tury and on the testimony of authenticated hand- supposed , on the traditions of the eighteenth cen- writing ...
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... fact that they both begin with r is of no force ; we do not connect pie with pay , nor my with may . However , I will just point out that there is no difficulty whatever as to the origin of the Gaelic word . It is fully explained in the ...
... fact that they both begin with r is of no force ; we do not connect pie with pay , nor my with may . However , I will just point out that there is no difficulty whatever as to the origin of the Gaelic word . It is fully explained in the ...
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