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... century , the result of the interaction of three other languages . Until the close of the eleventh century the people of England had spoken dialects of Germanic origin . Reflecting a relatively simple culture , Anglo - Saxon ( Old ...
... century , the result of the interaction of three other languages . Until the close of the eleventh century the people of England had spoken dialects of Germanic origin . Reflecting a relatively simple culture , Anglo - Saxon ( Old ...
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... centuries , the English lan- guage had been rapidly changing . An ac- quaintance with the great writers of Eng- land - Chaucer in the fifteenth century , Shakespeare in the sixteenth , Milton in the seventeenth reveals the extent of ...
... centuries , the English lan- guage had been rapidly changing . An ac- quaintance with the great writers of Eng- land - Chaucer in the fifteenth century , Shakespeare in the sixteenth , Milton in the seventeenth reveals the extent of ...
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... century , the South and the North differed , according to a modern historian , as sharply as Canada and Mexico differ today . What led to such marked sectional dif- ferences ? Climate contributed ; so did topography ; so did the lack of ...
... century , the South and the North differed , according to a modern historian , as sharply as Canada and Mexico differ today . What led to such marked sectional dif- ferences ? Climate contributed ; so did topography ; so did the lack of ...
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APPROACHING AMERICAN | 1 |
Carl Sandburg Chicago | 34 |
William Saroyan The Oyster and the Pearl | 60 |
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