A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol 2 doc

... temporal with their Norman brethren. Norman-French became the language of the Court and the nobility, the language of Parliament and the law courts, of the universities and the schools, of the ... +esquire+ and +squire+; +Egyptian+ and +gipsy+; +emmet+ and +ant+; +gammon+ and +game+; +grandfather+ and +gaffer+; +grandmother+ and +gammer+; +iota+ (...

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... to a standard general vocab- ulary. Addison went so far as to claim that ‘one of the great beauties of poetry’ lay in using ‘such easy language as may be understood by ordinary Readers’ (17 12; ... that irony and allegory are competitors rather than collaborators, in that the growing importance of the first coincides with the decline of the second. One explanation appea...

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... Roanoke Island, August 18, 1587, a girl was born and named Virginia. She was the granddaughter of Governor White and the daughter of Eleanor and Ananias Dare, and the first child of English parents ... Augustine, around the Gulf of Mexico, down South America to the Strait of Magellan and up the west coast to California, save the foothold of Portugal, is...

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... lead times for printing banknotes and minting coins. The date of 1 January 20 02 had both advantages and disadvantages. The peak period for banknote use is at the end of the year: circulation ... is around 10% higher than average because of the Christmas season and the first few days of January are traditionally a sales and stocktaking period for retailers...

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... Canary Islands, then they followed the track of Columbus to the West India Islands, and thence along the coast of Florida] Gosnold, a master of a small bark (16 02) , discovered and named Cape ... [Footnote: The river was called James, and the town Jamestown, in honor of the king of England. The headlands received the names of Cape Henry and Cape Cha...

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... be the storage, transmission, and copying of the library of information a whole planet of human beings would generate. These ideas were remarkably ahead of their time, as attested to by an ... other Shakespeare professors believe that the way a person should act to be a great Shakespeare professor is to teach as many people as possible about Shakespeare in as compl...

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... and manufactured goods and all outfit needed for the farmers' land and family can be made at low and owing to the competition that always arises to supply a steady and natural market lowering ... manufacturers could still buy their raw materials at the advanced prices, pay themselves the accustomed or increased profits, and then possibly pay the laborer a s...

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