Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saviour's is associated with the very beginnings of English literature, as well as with the memory of that Englishman who gave the first practical impulse to the founding of education in New England. If the strange rudimentary English of Gower had little to attract that young scholar of St. Saviour's-as we may well believe him to have been a pupil of the school of which his father was a governor-there was a later literature as well as a later history associated with St. Saviour's and the Bankside that a youth intended for the church even...
...Englishman and an American write on arbitration and on the future of warfare, and it is Sir Lyon Play fair, belonging to the nation which, with its "hearts of oak" and mighty ironclads, has ever ruled the waves, who advocates peace, while Captain Zalinski, of the commercial republic, is the prophet of warfare...