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THE HISTORY

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.

All rights reserved

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1902

COPYRIGHT, 1894,

BY MACMILLAN AND CO.

Set up and electrotyped September, 1894. Reprinted
April, 1895; February, October (with corrections), 1897;
July, 1902.

Norwood Press :

J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

ΤΟ

JAMES MORGAN HART

IN

GRATITUDE AND ESTEEM