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And our own forefathers the people of the British Isles, the Anglo-Saxons who are to-day leading in the social world were not one iota better throughout those pages than many of the smallest and most unpretentious of obscure tribes living here and there in ignorant, local isolation.
Anthony Falls was the only representative of the Anglo-Saxons, where now dwell hundreds of thousands of white men of various nationalities.
George over the untold wealth of new lands, and spreading the world-wide empire of the Anglo-Saxons. LITERARY CHARACTERISTICS. In every preceding age we have noted especially the poetical works, which constitute, according to Matthew Arnold, the glory of English literature. Now for the first time we must chronicle the triumph of English prose.
Anglo-Saxons may be proud of the fact that certain French savants have acknowledged that the name of the most celebrated of all Paris palaces is a derivation from a word belonging to their tongue and meaning habitation. This, then, is another version and one may choose that which is most to his liking, or may go back and show his preference for lower, meaning a fortified place.
Dutch men and women seem to have all sizes equally distributed amongst them; it cannot be said that they are a short people, like the French and the Belgians, nor can the indication of middle size be so rightly applied to them as to their German neighbours, whereas the taller Anglo-Saxons can frequently find their match in the Netherlands.
Professor Santayana has lately noted the same difference between the type of character developed by the Latin nations and by the Anglo-Saxons.
But some things may be regarded as historically certain. The whole country had been desolated by war when Augustine arrived. For a hundred and fifty years the brutality and ignorance of the barbarians had reigned supreme. All traces of Roman civilization had nearly disappeared with the conquest of the heathen Anglo-Saxons.
The young man stopped reddened and a little abashed by his own eloquence. But Madame Variani murmured still with the same aspect of a shrewd and sleepy cat basking in the sun 'It is the same with all you Anglo-Saxons. The North will never understand the South never! You can't understand our a peu pres.
The only example of the termination -WARDLY given by this lexicographer is from Donne, where it means TOWARDS the west. Milton does not employ either of these terminations, nor were they known to the Anglo-Saxons, who, however, had adjectives of direction in -AN or -EN, -ern and -weard, the last always meaning the point TOWARDS which motion in supposed, the others that FROM which it proceeds.
'I have just been in another counthry where such conduct as we've witnessed here wud be unknown at a second thrile, I says, 'because they have no second thriles, I says. 'We Anglo-Saxons ar-re th' salt iv th' earth, an' don't ye f'rget it, boys. All our affairs ar-re in ordher.
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