Word: saxonizes
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...body serves to express the thoughts of his mind. The church is the body of Christ and through it He has expressed His thoughts and wishes. For example, it might seem that the conversion of the great Anglo-Saxon race called for a personal manifestation of Christ, but He brought it about through the church, His body. Ethelbert married a Christian princess and so the church was introduced into England. If the body of a man will not express his thoughts he is very unhappy and takes little interest in life. So when the church will not express the will...
Modern Language Conference. Recently discovered Old Saxon Fragments. Professor von Jagemann. Sever...
Modern Language Conference. Recently discovered Old Saxon Fragments. Professor von Jagemann. Sever...
Modern Language Conference. Elizabeth Elstob, the Anglo-Saxon Scholar. Mr. W. H. Schofield. Sever...
...Saxon does not seem to have ever been very good at acquiring languages. The number of words derived from the Celtic which are preserved in English is perhaps not greater than those which (like hominy, quahaug, pogie, tauttog, and a few others) our American English has caught from the Indians. Compared with the great mass of our language, the number of words of Norman introduction is also very small. Chaucer shows the tendency of the two dialects of court and country to coalesce and form a new language. The almost contemporary poem of Piers Ploughman, written for popular effect...