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a one From The Spectator , 14 Sept. when they are merely indulging hallucinaUN - ENGLISH WISHES FOR AMERICA . tions , fighting against windmills , striving The news of every succeeding mail from after the impossible , dashing a great ...
a one From The Spectator , 14 Sept. when they are merely indulging hallucinaUN - ENGLISH WISHES FOR AMERICA . tions , fighting against windmills , striving The news of every succeeding mail from after the impossible , dashing a great ...
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Thus , in order to discover the exact minimum of the copia vocabulorum in Engproportions of the various elements which lish ; but he adds that no dictionary contains enter into the formation of the English more than two - thirds , or at ...
Thus , in order to discover the exact minimum of the copia vocabulorum in Engproportions of the various elements which lish ; but he adds that no dictionary contains enter into the formation of the English more than two - thirds , or at ...
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a “ Suppose , ” he writes , “ the English lan- prepositions , without which it is impossible guage to be divided into a hundred parts ; of to form a single sentence are all of Saxon these , to make a rough distribution , sixty origin ...
a “ Suppose , ” he writes , “ the English lan- prepositions , without which it is impossible guage to be divided into a hundred parts ; of to form a single sentence are all of Saxon these , to make a rough distribution , sixty origin ...
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