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... expressing itself not in words but in deeds ; capable of standing calmly on the sinking deck , passing the word , " Women and children first , " till all the weak and helpless have been saved ; following the call of faith , loyalty ...
... expressing itself not in words but in deeds ; capable of standing calmly on the sinking deck , passing the word , " Women and children first , " till all the weak and helpless have been saved ; following the call of faith , loyalty ...
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... expression . Even the Roman his- torian Tacitus remarks the personal independence of their Germanic ancestors in their old home , how they dwelt alone , each in his own little dwelling . Not only was each habitation independent in the ...
... expression . Even the Roman his- torian Tacitus remarks the personal independence of their Germanic ancestors in their old home , how they dwelt alone , each in his own little dwelling . Not only was each habitation independent in the ...
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... expression of the life of the race that produced it , and as indestructible as that race . The Anglo - Saxon language was one of remark- able simplicity . This is due in part to the shortness of its words , which are prevailingly ...
... expression of the life of the race that produced it , and as indestructible as that race . The Anglo - Saxon language was one of remark- able simplicity . This is due in part to the shortness of its words , which are prevailingly ...
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... glish appropriation which gathers the treasures of every tongue to enrich our own , so that the choice of words becomes a question not of origin but of effective expression . IV ANGLO - SAXON TO ENGLISH SPEECH IV ANGLO - 96 HISTORIC ...
... glish appropriation which gathers the treasures of every tongue to enrich our own , so that the choice of words becomes a question not of origin but of effective expression . IV ANGLO - SAXON TO ENGLISH SPEECH IV ANGLO - 96 HISTORIC ...
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... expressions , as " the more part of them , " instead of " the majority " ; and " writ open ( open writ ) , and how much more expressive this is than the later " letters patent . " Here two points are to be especially observed : I. ANGLO ...
... expressions , as " the more part of them , " instead of " the majority " ; and " writ open ( open writ ) , and how much more expressive this is than the later " letters patent . " Here two points are to be especially observed : I. ANGLO ...
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accented Alfred alliteration ancient Anglo Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Chronicle battle beauty became become Beowulf Britain British Britons called century Chaucer Chaucerian Christian Chronicle church civilization conquered conquerors Danelaw death dominion Douai Bible earth Empire England English Bible English language English literature English speech English-speaking French fultume Geneva Bible glish Gower Greek guage Hence Henry Henry VIII History hundred invaders island king land later Latin Layamon learning lines literary Lord master Matthew's Bible meaning ment mighty modern English nation native never noble Norman Conquest Northmen noun original Ormulum period Piers Plowman pirates poem poet poetry prose reign remarkable rime Roman Saxon scholar Scriptures seems shore spelling story style sword syllables Testament thegn thing thou thought tion tongue tract translation Tyndale Tyndale's unto verse vowel warrior words Wyclif Wyclif's Bible
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269 ページ - When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow! The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn ; Till danger's troubled night depart And the star of peace return. Then, then, ye ocean- warriors ! Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow ; When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
229 ページ - No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
271 ページ - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
224 ページ - I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. " The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation : he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
276 ページ - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
266 ページ - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
259 ページ - The antler'd monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But, ere his fleet career he took, The dew-drops from his flanks he shook ; Like crested leader proud and high...
285 ページ - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
228 ページ - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
228 ページ - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.