... but he had not the advantage ofthe stores of material which are now available. Through the indefatigable enthusiasm ofthe late Dr. Hocken the journals ofthe early missionaries have been ... much in advance of its time, would have withered like Jonah's gourd, and have come to an end with the premature decease of Ruatara." For a few days after the arrival ofthe Ann at Port ... strife.Thy fathers have slain his fathers, each taken a life for a life.Thy father had slain his father: how long shall the murder last?Go back to the island of Finn, and suffer the past to be past."...
... exhibited almost a repetition ofthe faults of Edward II.; and the appearance ofa newand powerful dynasty the House of Lancaster in the person ofthe able and ambitious Henry IV. Thiscentury saw also ... manuscripts and books, and fled to all parts of Italy,Germany, France, and even into England. The loss ofthe East became the gain ofthe West. These scholarsbecame teachers; they taught the ... +Character ofthe Scandinavian Element.+ The Northmen, as we have said, were Teutons; and theyspoke a dialect ofthe great Teutonic (or German) language. The sounds ofthe Danish dialect or language,as...
... Crusoe’s way. He taught Friday English but did learn any of Friday’s language. Crusoe didn’t point to a goat and say: “this is a goat” and then signal to Friday to say what it was called in his language. ... the mastery ofthe others was a very unattractive trait that Crusoe displayed. The novel shows that mastery of one’s own life is a praiseworthy achievement, but that mastery of another’s is a ... and abroad, but also helped to shape the views of people. Most popular were the satirical moralizing journals. The Tatler , The Spectator, The Englishman edited by Joseph Addison and Richard...
... of engrossing. Their land was taken away from them and added to the acreage of some large farm; and the farmer's land-hunger was so greatthat in many places even the cottage-gardens were ... An Economic Historyof the English Poor Lawexcess ofthe marginal product of labor, the effect of poor relief onmigration was small.Chapter 7 examines the effect ofthe New Poor Law on the ... parishes from 1815 to 1834. The revisionist analysis ofthe Poor Law began in 1963 with the publi-cation of Mark Blaug's classic paper " ;The Myth ofthe Old Poor Lawand the Making of...
... Baghdad was occasioned by the mounting chaos there and was accompanied by an inclination to assert a firmer American grip, one result of which was the selection and dispatch of Bremer.What ... unlike the Ba’ath party, was respected in parts of the Shi’ite and Sunni communities. It would also have allowed an accelerated recall of individuals and a selective recall of entire units, as the ... By the fall of 2003, the original American project for Iraq was clearly faltering. Violent resistance was rising, and most Iraqis, however unfairly, blamed Americans for the damage and wanted...
... the cause ofthe peculiarity of their constitution ceases. “79. If the charters can be pleaded against the authority of parliament, they amount to an alienation ofthe dominions of Great ... avoid them; they suffered sufficiently under them in England. And there are few ofthe present generation who have not been warned ofthe danger of them by their fathers or grandfathers, and ... path, in his first paper complains that the press is not free; that a party, by playing off the resentment ofthe populace against printers and authors, has gained the ascendency so far as...
... ii.]With the rise of this system, and the attendant increased importation of slaves, came the end ofthe helpfulcontact of servants with their masters. Slavery was thereby changed from a patriarchal ... did notreach all parts ofthe colony.[2] The Quakers of North Carolina, however, had local schools and actuallytaught slaves. Some of these could read and write as early as 1731. Thereafter, household ... advocates ofthe education of the Negroes endeavored to give them such practical training as their peculiar needs demanded. In the agricultural sections the first duty ofthe teacher ofthe blacks was...
... Japanese.Some of these linguists have pursued comparative work in the context of Macro-Altaic – that is, a relationship of Japanese to Korean was treated assubsidiary to the grander comparative ... general acceptance among Altaicists, especiallyin Russia and parts of Europe, and since that time their explorations of the genetic affinities of Korean have generally been shaped by the Macro-Altaicagenda. ... scope of theirresearch far afield, and the latter half ofthe twentieth century saw attemptsto relate Japanese not only to Korean and Altaic, but also to Austronesian,Dravidian, Tibetan, and...
... way any notion of the ‘Spanish language’. In the present day, the notion ofthe ‘Spanish language’ isoften used, with some justification, to refer to the standardised language that has of cial ... Latin and Romance 2.6 Tardarsan por jmplire (l.7) appears not to translate the Latin exactly, butto have the meaning ‘they tarry, are slow, in observing’.2.6.1 Tardarsan illustrates the analytic ... status in a number of countries, including Spain, and under this view‘Spanish’ would be equatable with the codification of vocabulary and grammarperiodically made by the Real Academia Española....
... process ofEnglish in countries in which English is not the mother tongue, many teachers have to teach mainly grammar and vocabulary because these areas are tested in examinations. This means that ... six tables for each row, and between each of them, there were small paths for students’ or teacher’s movement. There was a large blackboard on the front wall and below the board; there was also ... back from participants also arranged in a particular order, corresponding to the order of participants’ seats on class for purposes ofthe latter procedure, data synthesis and analysis. 3.4.3....
... quantitative ablaut may be connected with accent,but we still lack a reasonable explanation for the rise of qualitativeablaut. The basic type of qualitative ablaut can be described as an alternation of ... the fourth letter of the alphabet had, apparently, the Germanic name *ansu^ 'god'. Andin the development ofthe alphabet it was the name which determined the sound, rather than the ... that the core antecedent of what is later tobecome Standard English was not West Saxon at all - which is the antecedent ofthe dialects ofthe Thames Valley and the area to its south-west. The...
... that we find both ascian 'ask' andmetathesised axian, cf. PDE dialects with axe instead of standard ask.Amongst many examples of palatalisation of */sk/ are: scip 'ship',scriman ... 'ship',scriman 'shrink', disc 'dish', ssc 'ash'. This also is a widespread feature of the Germanic languages, as in, e.g. G Schiff'shvp'.Palatalisation (and the ... precisely because of the palatal nature of the following consonant (as the table of proto-Old English consonants onp. 101 shows, /]/ was the only palatal consonant at the time). Similarsupport...