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... century , can be easily counted . But after about 1260 there is a great influx of Norman- French words , which goes on steadily increasing for the next century . The mixture of the two races fostered by such events as the loss of the ...
... century , can be easily counted . But after about 1260 there is a great influx of Norman- French words , which goes on steadily increasing for the next century . The mixture of the two races fostered by such events as the loss of the ...
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... century is generally acknowledged to be the most barren in our literature . It has not given us one master- piece , and very few names of distinction . It Character- lies between the bright promise of the four- istics of teenth century ...
... century is generally acknowledged to be the most barren in our literature . It has not given us one master- piece , and very few names of distinction . It Character- lies between the bright promise of the four- istics of teenth century ...
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... Century . the century . These periodicals were in the first place organs of literary criticism , and they were also allied to one or other of the great political parties . Nineteenth Great The earliest to appear was one of Whig ...
... Century . the century . These periodicals were in the first place organs of literary criticism , and they were also allied to one or other of the great political parties . Nineteenth Great The earliest to appear was one of Whig ...
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