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

J.M.D.Meiklejohn

anges in the Church and in the State, and it also introduced many changes into the language. The inflexions of our speech began to drop off, because they we

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That is to say, the main part or substance of it can be traced back to the race which inhabited the high table-lands that lie to the back of the western end of the great range of the Himalaya, or “Abode of Snow.”