Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 863
... English literature is energy , power often ill - restrained , vigor often superabundant . From the earliest rude war- songs of the stalwart Saxon fighters who were beginning to make the English language , to the latest short story ...
... English literature is energy , power often ill - restrained , vigor often superabundant . From the earliest rude war- songs of the stalwart Saxon fighters who were beginning to make the English language , to the latest short story ...
Page 864
... English literature what it is have sent the English - speaking stock forth to fill up the waste places of the earth , and to wrest new lands from hostile savages or from inhospitable nature . French was the language of the courts of ...
... English literature what it is have sent the English - speaking stock forth to fill up the waste places of the earth , and to wrest new lands from hostile savages or from inhospitable nature . French was the language of the courts of ...
Page 866
... English language than we Americans have . The English language is the mother tongue of the inhabitants of the British Isles , but so it is also the mother tongue of the inhabitants of the United States . It is not a loan to us , which ...
... English language than we Americans have . The English language is the mother tongue of the inhabitants of the British Isles , but so it is also the mother tongue of the inhabitants of the United States . It is not a loan to us , which ...
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