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... called Anglo - Saxon , is no more intelligible to an Englishman of the present day who has not made it a special study than is German or Dutch . The case is even a great deal worse than that . Dutch and German and other foreign tongues ...
... called Anglo - Saxon , is no more intelligible to an Englishman of the present day who has not made it a special study than is German or Dutch . The case is even a great deal worse than that . Dutch and German and other foreign tongues ...
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... called Saxon , or Anglo - Saxon ) 32 THE NORMAN PERIOD - The Conquest 42 Arabic and other New Learning 47 Schools and Universities . 53 Rise of the Scholastic Philosophy 58 John of Salisbury ; Peter of Blois 60 Classical Learning ...
... called Saxon , or Anglo - Saxon ) 32 THE NORMAN PERIOD - The Conquest 42 Arabic and other New Learning 47 Schools and Universities . 53 Rise of the Scholastic Philosophy 58 John of Salisbury ; Peter of Blois 60 Classical Learning ...
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... SECOND ENGLISH : -Commonly called Semi - Saxon . The Here Prophecy 170 . 173 The Brut of Layamon The Ormulum The Ancren Riwle 173 . 178 . 191 198 SECOND ENGLISH - continued . Metrical Legends : -Land of xii CONTENTS .
... SECOND ENGLISH : -Commonly called Semi - Saxon . The Here Prophecy 170 . 173 The Brut of Layamon The Ormulum The Ancren Riwle 173 . 178 . 191 198 SECOND ENGLISH - continued . Metrical Legends : -Land of xii CONTENTS .
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... called the dress of language . It is an artificial or non - natural addition which language assumes as it grows up and gets civilized , -something that perhaps would not have been needed or thought of in a state of innocence . As ...
... called the dress of language . It is an artificial or non - natural addition which language assumes as it grows up and gets civilized , -something that perhaps would not have been needed or thought of in a state of innocence . As ...
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... called dialects , the number of distinct languages in Europe , though it falls short of the number of political communities , exceeds the number of what we can properly call nations . Some languages , again , such as the Welsh , the ...
... called dialects , the number of distinct languages in Europe , though it falls short of the number of political communities , exceeds the number of what we can properly call nations . Some languages , again , such as the Welsh , the ...
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