 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1906 - 556 หน้า
...statement of all the facts of the language, but to go behind the facts, and, as Mr. Bradley says, to study the " causes that have produced the excellences and defects of modern English as an instrument of expression." Professor Jespersen announces his purpose in somewhat similar language;... | |
 | 1904 - 298 หน้า
...— Preface. PHILOLOGY. Bradley, Henry. Making of English. NY, 1904. 16°. 420-B72 " The object is to give to educated readers unversed in philology some notion of the causes that have produced the excellencies and defects of modern English as an instrument of expression." — Preface. SCIENCE. 142... | |
 | Henry Bradley - 1904 - 268 หน้า
...difficult points. The object of the book is to give to educated readers unversed in philology'some notion of the causes that have produced the excellences and defects of modern English as an instrument of expression. With the history of the language I have attempted to deal only so far... | |
 | McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago - 1904 - 896 หน้า
...His object, as stated by himself, "is to give to educated readers unversed in philology some notions of the causes that have produced the excellences and defects of modern English as an instrument of expression." Brandes, Oeorg. Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century. I2mo, gilt... | |
 | Wilhelm Viëtor - 1908 - 702 หน้า
...object of the book is to give to educated renders unversed in philology some notion of the causes {hat have produced the excellences and defects of modern English äs an instrument of expression. With the history of the language I have altempted to deal only so far äs it bears on thii special... | |
 | William Forbes Gray - 1912 - 438 หน้า
...A valuable study by one of the editors of the Oxloril English Dictionary. The aim of the book la " to give to educated readers unversed in philology...produced the excellences and defects of modern English as an Instrument of expression." CHAMPNEYS, AC HISTORY OF ENGLISH. 8 in. 428 pp. Maps. 1893. Riviugtons.... | |
 | William Forbes Gray - 1912 - 432 หน้า
...4/6. A valuable study by one of the editors of the Oxford English Dirtwiuirv. The aim of the hook is " to give to educated readers unversed In philology...the causes that have produced the excellences and defect* of modern English as an Instrument of expression." CHAHPNEYS, AC HISTORY OF ENGLISH. H In.... | |
 | Isabella Mitchell Cooper, Marion Horton - 1926 - 1302 หน้า
...and root creation, with the purpose of giving the educated reader, unversed jn philology, some idea of the causes that have produced the excellences and defects of modern English as an instrument of expression. English language — Hist. 1000 4-6717 Fernald, James Champlin, 1838-1918.... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1906 - 558 หน้า
...statement of all the facts of the language, but to go behind the facts, and, as Mr. Bradley says, to study the " causes that have produced the excellences and defects of modern English as an instrument of expression." Professor Jespersen announces his purpose in somewhat similar language;... | |
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The object of the book is to give to educated readers unversed in philology some notion of the causes that have produced the excellences and defects of modern English as an instrument of expression. 