 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Comparative linguistics - 1853 - 446 pages
...had their homespun sayings, which by all mankind are yet looked upon as true wisdom, as : GW helps them that help themselves ; lost time is never found...Henry III., indignantly : " Am I an Englishman, that I should know these (Saxon) charters and these laws 3 " In vain it was that William and his successors... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Comparative linguistics - 1853 - 448 pages
...which by all mankind are yet looked upon as true wisdom, as: GW helps them that help themselves ; fosi time is never found again ; when sorrow is asleep,...Henry III., indignantly : " Am I an Englishman, that I should know these (Saxon) charters and these laws ?" In vain it was that William and his successors... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Comparative linguistics - 1853 - 442 pages
...British kingdom ; the Norman French, an exotic plant, deprived of its native soil and heat, nourishing for a time, but gradually withering and fading away...Henry III., indignantly: "Am I an Englishman, that I 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,...Henry III., indignantly, " Am I an Englishman, that I should know these (Saxon) charters and these laws?" In vain it was that William and his successors... | |
 | 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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The Normans had conquered the land and the race, but they struggled in vain against the language that conquered them in its turn, and, by its spirit, converted them into Englishmen. In vain did they haughtily refuse to learn a word of that despised tongue,... 