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There remain four European languages to be considered , Spanish , German , French and English , as candidates for the supreme honour of being the universal one . The only other languages which are spoken over wide areas , viz .
There remain four European languages to be considered , Spanish , German , French and English , as candidates for the supreme honour of being the universal one . The only other languages which are spoken over wide areas , viz .
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But on the Continent and abroad French went on from strength to strength , and gradually became the language of fashion , a courtly foreign grace , ' which all the more civilised members of other nations felt bound to acquire , and was ...
But on the Continent and abroad French went on from strength to strength , and gradually became the language of fashion , a courtly foreign grace , ' which all the more civilised members of other nations felt bound to acquire , and was ...
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Three - quarters of a century ago that shrewd judge of current topics , Walter Bagehot , put the matter clearly , if somewhat unkindly , into the nutshell phrase , ' French is the patois of Europe , while English is the language of the ...
Three - quarters of a century ago that shrewd judge of current topics , Walter Bagehot , put the matter clearly , if somewhat unkindly , into the nutshell phrase , ' French is the patois of Europe , while English is the language of the ...
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JANUARY | 1 |
The Problems of Malta | 10 |
WILL ENGLISH BE THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE | 47 |
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