THE HISTORY OF

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

•The

OF THE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

BY

OLIVER FARRAR EMERSON, A.M., PH.D.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH PHILOLOGY
IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

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820

1897

COPYRIGHT, 1894,

By MACMILLAN AND CO.

Set up and electrotyped September, 1894. Reprinted
April, 1895; February, October (with corrections), 1897.

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