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... taken . " I propose to transpose one letter , and read : - " Whose worth's unknown , although his hight be taken . " Hight I take to be a survival in substantive form of the old English verb hight , as used by Chaucer and revived by ...
... taken . " I propose to transpose one letter , and read : - " Whose worth's unknown , although his hight be taken . " Hight I take to be a survival in substantive form of the old English verb hight , as used by Chaucer and revived by ...
Page 194
... taken in the Severn , and I have a note of one taken at Glou- cester in 1875. Though Ribbesford seems a considerable distance for a seal to have progressed from the sea , yet we find , by an ancient chronicle preserved in Leland , that ...
... taken in the Severn , and I have a note of one taken at Glou- cester in 1875. Though Ribbesford seems a considerable distance for a seal to have progressed from the sea , yet we find , by an ancient chronicle preserved in Leland , that ...
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... taken by Diez , who traces a kinship with It . guerire , guarire , Old Sp . and Portg . guarir , Goth . varjan , to defend . Here would come in O. H. Ger . werjan , Ger . wehren , Old Eng . warishe ( Wycliffe , Prov . iv . 6 ) . The ...
... taken by Diez , who traces a kinship with It . guerire , guarire , Old Sp . and Portg . guarir , Goth . varjan , to defend . Here would come in O. H. Ger . werjan , Ger . wehren , Old Eng . warishe ( Wycliffe , Prov . iv . 6 ) . The ...
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