| Maximilian Schele de Vere - Comparative linguistics - 1853 - 448 pages
...had their homespun sayings, which by all mankind are yet looked upon as irwe wisdom, as : GW AeZps them that help themselves ; lost time is never found...Henry III., indignantly : " Am I an Englishman, that 1 should know these (Saxon) charters and these laws ? " In vain it was that William and his successors... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...other, continued for nearly four hundred years side by side in the British kingdom; the Norman-French, an exotic plant, deprived of its native soil and heat,...should know these (Saxon) charters and these laws?" In vain it was that William and his successors filled bishopric and abbey with the ANGLO-SAXON AND... | |
| Readers - 1866 - 408 pages
...other, continued for nearly four hundred years side by side in the British kingdom ; the Norman-French, an exotic plant, deprived of its native soil and heat,...tongue, and asked, in the words of the minister of Henry TIL, indignantly, "Am I an Englishman, that I should know these (Saxon) charters and these laws?" In... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1873 - 408 pages
...The Normans had conquered the land and the race, but they struggled in vain against the language. It conquered them in its turn, and, by its spirit, converted...refuse to learn a word of that despised tongue, and 'indignantly asked, in the words of the minister of Henry III., " Am I an Englishman, that I should... | |
| Medicine - 1879 - 588 pages
...the power of wealth, conquer the language. M. Schele Du Vere, of the University of Virginia, says : ' "The Normans had conquered the land and the race,...in its turn, and by its spirit converted them into English men." This must be upon the Darwinian doctrine of the "survival of the fittest," so well explained... | |
| Thomas Nelson Publishers - Books and reading - 1893 - 444 pages
...The Normans had conquered the land and the race, but they struggled in vain against the language. It conquered them in its turn, and, by its spirit, converted...refuse to learn a word of that despised tongue, and 'indignantly asked, in the words of the minister of Henry III., " Am I an Englishman, that I should... | |
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