 Although Cornish must now be classed with the extinct languages, it has certainly shown a marvellous vitality. More than four hundred years of Roman occupation, more than six hundred years of Saxon and Danish sway, a Norman conquest, a Saxon Reformation,...  Proceedings of the Canadian Institute - Page 45by Canadian Institute - 1886Full view - About this book
 | 1871 - 704 pages
...Cornish must nnw be classed with the extinct languages, it has certainly shown a marvellous vitality. More than four hundred years of Roman occupation,...has lived on in an unbroken continuity for at least 2000 years. What docs this mean ? It means that through the whole of English history to the accession... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1867 - 594 pages
...Cornish must now be classed with the extinct languages, it has certainly shown a marvellous vitality. More than four hundred years of Roman occupation,...unbroken continuity for at least two thousand years. What does this mean? It means that through the whole of English history to the accession of the House... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1870 - 536 pages
...Cornish must now be classed with the extinct languages, it has certainly shown a marvellous vitality. More than four hundred years of Roman occupation,...unbroken continuity for at least two thousand years. What does this mean \ It means that through the whole of English history to the accession of the House... | |
 | 1871 - 704 pages
...Cornish must now be classed with the extinct languages, it has certainly shown a marvellous vitality. More than four hundred years of Roman occupation,...has lived on in an unbroken continuity for at least 2000 years. What does this mean ? It means that through the whole of English history to the accession... | |
 | 1872 - 106 pages
...Cornish must now be classed with the extinct languages, it has certainly shown a marvellous vitality. More than four hundred years of Roman occupation,...has lived on in an unbroken continuity for at least 2,000 years. What does this mean? It means that, through the whole of English history to the accession... | |
 | Abraham Van Doren Honeyman - 1901 - 444 pages
...received opinions on the subject of this language, says of it: ''The language A Waterfall Near Tintagel. of the Celts of Cornwall has lived on in an unbroken continuity for at least two thousand years." Strange enough, especially when we consider how little that language has to show for itself to-day.... | |
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