Slavic and Latin: Ilchester Lectures on Comparative Lexicography, Delivered at the Taylor Institution, OxfordTrübner & Company, 1883 - 123 pages |
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... world is aware , have been eminently successful in very many respects . No- thing could be more erroneous than to regard the Muscovite or Finno - Tataric ingredient of the Rus- sian Empire in its present Slavified aspect as inferior to ...
... world is aware , have been eminently successful in very many respects . No- thing could be more erroneous than to regard the Muscovite or Finno - Tataric ingredient of the Rus- sian Empire in its present Slavified aspect as inferior to ...
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... world is accident , and , as a rule , mischievous accident . " Mazká , ' from ' mazáty , ' ' to smear , ' in Little Rus- sian is blood , ' in Great Russian ointment . ' ' Arúda , ' in Little Russian ' a means , an instrument , ' in ...
... world is accident , and , as a rule , mischievous accident . " Mazká , ' from ' mazáty , ' ' to smear , ' in Little Rus- sian is blood , ' in Great Russian ointment . ' ' Arúda , ' in Little Russian ' a means , an instrument , ' in ...
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... world . Let us take an instance or two . The Latin ' gladius , ' being a short sword of peculiar shape , is inaccurately rendered by ' sword , ' which may or may not be what the Roman term indicates . The Latin ' cantus , ' signifying ...
... world . Let us take an instance or two . The Latin ' gladius , ' being a short sword of peculiar shape , is inaccurately rendered by ' sword , ' which may or may not be what the Roman term indicates . The Latin ' cantus , ' signifying ...
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... world to look upon things in the approved European way , and to converse upon them in customary French phraseology ; he is ' prosveschtschénni , ' on the other hand , enlightened , civilised , when he has given up the oppressive ...
... world to look upon things in the approved European way , and to converse upon them in customary French phraseology ; he is ' prosveschtschénni , ' on the other hand , enlightened , civilised , when he has given up the oppressive ...
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... world , nations are admonished to agree upon a common idiom , which shall be spoken from pole to . pole , and be equally intelligible in London , Berlin , and Tim- buctoo . The grand reform once effected , nations , we are assured by ...
... world , nations are admonished to agree upon a common idiom , which shall be spoken from pole to . pole , and be equally intelligible in London , Berlin , and Tim- buctoo . The grand reform once effected , nations , we are assured by ...
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