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...Europe," says Lyell, "are a thousand years old. No English scholar who has not specially given himself up to the study of AngloSaxon can interpret the documents...monarch if these last could now be restored to life." The same holds true of Germany. " They who now speak German, if brought into contact with their Teutonic...

...old. A popular English scholar has said that probably no one, who has not given himself up especially to the study of Anglo-Saxon, can interpret the documents...nineteenth century could converse with the subjects of Alfred if the latter could be restored to life. 1 ; They who now speak German, if brought into contact...

...languages of modern Europe is a thousand years old. No English scholar who has not specially given himself up to the study of Anglo-Saxon can interpret the documents...monarch if these last could now be restored to life. The difficulties encountered would not arise merely from the intrusion of French terms, in consequence...

...Europe were a thousand years old. No English scholar, he might say, who has not specially given himself up to the study of Anglo-Saxon, can interpret the...the English of the nineteenth century could converse 358 The Antiquity of Man with the subjects of that monarch if these last could now be restored to life....