The Childhood of the English Nation; Or, The Beginnings of English HistoryG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1877 - 247 páginas |
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... Welsh are de- scended . It has been said that at that time you might have asked for bread and cheese in Welsh anywhere from the north of Scotland to the south of France , and you would have been understood ; for evidence derived from ...
... Welsh are de- scended . It has been said that at that time you might have asked for bread and cheese in Welsh anywhere from the north of Scotland to the south of France , and you would have been understood ; for evidence derived from ...
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... Welsh , a name which in the old Teutonic languages simply means foreign . It was in 449 , then , that the conquest of Britain by the English began ; and it went on for three hundred years at least . That is to say , during the whole of ...
... Welsh , a name which in the old Teutonic languages simply means foreign . It was in 449 , then , that the conquest of Britain by the English began ; and it went on for three hundred years at least . That is to say , during the whole of ...
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... Welsh words , relating to such things as slaves would have to do with , have crept into our English language . But there is no reason to think that a very large number of Welsh slaves were spared , still less that there was any general ...
... Welsh words , relating to such things as slaves would have to do with , have crept into our English language . But there is no reason to think that a very large number of Welsh slaves were spared , still less that there was any general ...
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... Welsh or of mixed blood , we cannot rightly deny that the old Kelts have given something to the making up of the English nation , though the laws , the in- stitutions , and the character of that nation are mainly Teutonic . doms . The ...
... Welsh or of mixed blood , we cannot rightly deny that the old Kelts have given something to the making up of the English nation , though the laws , the in- stitutions , and the character of that nation are mainly Teutonic . doms . The ...
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... Welsh poetry which have come down to us , has surely been overlooked by those who contend that English poetic genius is due to intermixture with Keltic blood . In person the Angles and Saxons and other Low - 16 CH . II . Childhood of ...
... Welsh poetry which have come down to us , has surely been overlooked by those who contend that English poetic genius is due to intermixture with Keltic blood . In person the Angles and Saxons and other Low - 16 CH . II . Childhood of ...
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