The North American Review, Volume 65Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1847 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... word of a speech addressed to him by his Anglo - Saxon subjects . The first Romance words seem to have found their way into the language through preachers and religious writers ; thus , we find gemartyrod in 1013 , chor in 1083 ...
... word of a speech addressed to him by his Anglo - Saxon subjects . The first Romance words seem to have found their way into the language through preachers and religious writers ; thus , we find gemartyrod in 1013 , chor in 1083 ...
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... words and the construction of the sentences , seems to prove that little more than the substitution of a few French for the present Saxon words was now necessary to produce a resemblance to that Anglo - Norman , or English , which came ...
... words and the construction of the sentences , seems to prove that little more than the substitution of a few French for the present Saxon words was now necessary to produce a resemblance to that Anglo - Norman , or English , which came ...
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... words which they employ . An exami- nation of some passages taken indiscriminately from their writings proves , that for one hundred words of Germanic origin the translators of the Bible use four of French ; Shak- speare and Cowley ...
... words which they employ . An exami- nation of some passages taken indiscriminately from their writings proves , that for one hundred words of Germanic origin the translators of the Bible use four of French ; Shak- speare and Cowley ...
Contents
EARLY HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE | 31 |
EGYPT AND ENGLAND | 56 |
THE NOVELS OF BALZAC | 85 |
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