 | Edwin Guest - 1838 - 474 pages
...maintain, and act upon, have been thus stated by one of their earliest and most zealous advocates. "All persons who have had much experience of Anglo-Saxon...dialect, and even for the etymological ignorance of former times, we are yet met at every turn with faults of grammar, with omissions or redundancies of... | |
 | 1839 - 614 pages
...of his author, he has made considerable alterations in the text; relative to this he remarks, — " With respect to the texts here given, I wish to add...have had much experience of Anglo-Saxon MSS. know bow hopelessly incorrect they in general are ; when every allowance has been made for date and dialect,... | |
 | Ottomar Behnsch - 1853 - 244 pages
...verderbtheit der Mss. durch schuld der abschreiber. „All persons," sagt er, „who have had mach experience of Anglo-Saxon Mss. know how hopelessly...omissions or redundancies, of letters and words." Thorpe (Pref. Caedm. XXII) in einer zu Oxford aufbewahrten, dem zehnten jahrhundert angehörenden handschrift... | |
 | Ottomar Behnsch - 1853 - 248 pages
...die verderbtheit der Mss. durch schuld der abschreiben „All persons," sagt er, „who have had mnch experience of Anglo-Saxon Mss. know how hopelessly...of early times , we are yet met at every turn with faulte of grammar, with omissions or redundancies , of letters and words." 2) Codex Ms. omnium vetustissimus... | |
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