Theeophrasti Characteres: with notes by J.G. Sheppard1852 |
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... probably effect the same object more concisely still . Let it plead my excuse that I have confined myself within far narrower limits than either Hottinger or Ast , and that I have never written without that alpha and omega of critical ...
... probably effect the same object more concisely still . Let it plead my excuse that I have confined myself within far narrower limits than either Hottinger or Ast , and that I have never written without that alpha and omega of critical ...
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... probably should say , " The man and horse , " without repeating the article ; for there could be no fear of our hearers identifying the two . But in grave and written composition should we say " the Warrior and Statesman , " if we meant ...
... probably should say , " The man and horse , " without repeating the article ; for there could be no fear of our hearers identifying the two . But in grave and written composition should we say " the Warrior and Statesman , " if we meant ...
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... probably became a sort of phrase , or cant expression , like " doing nothing " with our tradespeople . Ast evidently does not understand a grammatical principle of very great importance , which is not sufficiently noticed either in our ...
... probably became a sort of phrase , or cant expression , like " doing nothing " with our tradespeople . Ast evidently does not understand a grammatical principle of very great importance , which is not sufficiently noticed either in our ...
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... probably are owing to his familiar style , in which he mentally supplies , and expects his readers to supply , his favourite TOLTÓS TIS olos . Something of this sort must have been the origin of the Lat . infinitive , explained in our ...
... probably are owing to his familiar style , in which he mentally supplies , and expects his readers to supply , his favourite TOLTÓS TIS olos . Something of this sort must have been the origin of the Lat . infinitive , explained in our ...
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... probably belong such expressions , κατέαγα τῆς κεφαλῆς , quoad caput fractus sum , " in respect of my head I am in a fractured state . " On the ten σтρárnyol , see Dict . of Antiquities ; and on their poɛdρía , Aristo- phanes , Equites ...
... probably belong such expressions , κατέαγα τῆς κεφαλῆς , quoad caput fractus sum , " in respect of my head I am in a fractured state . " On the ten σтρárnyol , see Dict . of Antiquities ; and on their poɛdρía , Aristo- phanes , Equites ...
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