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...time of the Conquest. At first the French and the Anglo-Saxon existed side by side, the one as language of the Court, the higher clergy and the nobles; the other of the people. Gradually as the connexion with Frence grew weaker and at last ceased altogether, and the realm of England began to develop itself under its single kings, the languages began to commingle and to take the direction which has ended in the present English. Even without the Conquest something similar, though not identical, would have taken place, for the Saxon was rapidly changing and would have ended...
...absolute and self-subsistent as that which appeals to our senses, nay, so often cheats them, in the matter of fact? How very small a part of the world we truly live in is represented by what speaks to us through the senses when compared with that vast realm of the mind which is peopled by memory and imagination, and with such shining inhabitants! These walls, these faces, what are they in comparison with the countless images, the innumerable population which every one of us can summon up to the tiny show-box of the brain, in material breadth scarce...
...poor. He lived as a child in an atmosphere of debt, difficulty, and dependence on bounty. At college, be met only failure and disgrace. It was not till he was settled as the secretary of Sir William Temple, one of the most diplomatic counsellors and elegant scholars of the realm, that Swift found himself in congenial circumstances. Out of the great library, he stocked his mind with the literary and political knowledge that made his after career possible...
...Along the Frontier of Proteus' Realm" is a practical prose paper by Edith M. Thomas concerning the seashore, with its winds, waves, shells, shadows and spiritual influences...
...Williamson Smith, president of Trinity college preached in Appleton chapel last evening. He chose as his text the first verse of the twelfth chapter of Genesis. We live in three worlds as it were, he said, the actual world, a border land filled with thoughts and passion, and the realm beyond. The possession of well being and happiness is not in the actual, but in searching after the ideal; therefore, happy is the man who can look forward to that excellence, but alas for him whose ideas are destroyed. The choir sang the following selections: The Son of God goes...