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Britannica. Special thanks are due to Mr E. Abbott of Jesus College for his great kindness in reading the whole book in manuscript; to Mr H. J. Cape of the King's School, Canterbury, for reading part of the proofs; to Mr L. A. Burd of Repton for advice' on several points; and to Mr Giles for permission to use an illustration from his article on Writing in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. I may add that the drawings for the diagrams are nearly all the work of my wife.
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Originally published in 1906, this book was originally intended as a guide for students beginning their university studies in Classics. Edmonds includes charts and tables illuminating the development of Indo-European languages, and uses examples from Greek and Latin literature to illustrate key philological points.
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