THIS is a thorough and an exhaustive work, having for its subject that which must be of perpetual and increasing interest to all Englishmen and Americans, and to all those colonists who, in different ...

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The works which have been preserved from the semi-Saxon period, the "Chronicle of Brutus," the Ancrea Rivoli and the Ormulum, he discusses at considerable length, as they well deserve, from the light ...

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The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first. From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University ...

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