`` Dear girl '', Walter had finally said, `` he writes me that he is sleeping in the English Gardens ''.

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

To him, law is the command of the sovereign ( the English monarch ) who personifies the power of the nation, while sovereignty is the power to make law -- i.e., to prevail over internal groups and to be free from the commands of other sovereigns in other nations.

There is a legend ( Hawthorne records it in his `` English Notebooks ''.

Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.

English philosopher Samuel Alexander's debt to Wordsworth and Meredith is a recent interesting example, as also A. N. Whitehead's understanding of the English romantics, chiefly Shelley and Wordsworth.

But as a stimulating, provocative interpretation of the broad sweep of English development it is incomparable.

Trevelyan is militantly sure of the superiority of English institutions and character over those of other peoples.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;

As it happens the English lady is a good Catholic herself, but of more liberal political persuasion.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

The word " Bohemian " was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word " Czech " became prevalent in English.

Geikie, a Scottish-born Canadian, reflected the Anglocentric attitude that would be prevalent in Canada for the next hundred years when he referred to the language as " a corrupt dialect ", in comparison to what he considered the proper English spoken by immigrants from Britain.

Cretin became a medical term in the 18th century, from an Alpine French dialect prevalent in a region where persons with such a condition were especially common ( see below ); it saw wide medical use in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then spread more widely in popular English as a markedly derogatory term for a person who behaves stupidly.

Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).

Creaky voice was reported to be prevalent in American English as spoken in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

It was the same as the natural theology that was so prevalent in all English theology in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The development of International English often centres on academic and scientific communities, where formal English usage is prevalent, and creative use of the language is at a minimum.

This would seem to indicate that the more prevalent pronunciations used in English, or, are spelling pronunciations, but regardless, they are more established than.

There are a considerable number of different accents within the regions of both the United States and Canada, originally deriving from the accents prevalent in different English, Scottish and Irish regions and corresponding to settlement patterns of these peoples in the colonies.

In such places, the more general English terms doctor or medical practitioner are prevalent, describing any practitioner of medicine ( whom an American would likely call a physician, in the broad sense ).

Of the three official languages, English spoken by 1 %- 2 % of the population, Tok Pisin is widespread, and Hiri Motu is spoken in the Papua region, the main region in which Tok Pisin is not prevalent.

Sunday Sabbatarianism became prevalent amongst both the continental and English Protestants over the following century.

The English accents of both related groups are significantly different and easily distinguishable ( primarily because of prevalent code-switching amongst the majority of Coloured English speakers, particularly in the Western Cape of South Africa ).

Whistles are a prevalent starting instrument in English traditional music, Scottish traditional music and Irish traditional music, since they are often cheap ( under US $ 10 ), relatively easy to start with ( no tricky embouchure such as found with the flute ), and the fingerings are nearly identical to those on the traditional six holed flute ( Irish flute, baroque flute ).

In his style and presentation of English history, Lingard demonstrates the prevalent manner of Catholic scholarship — he gives, for example, no indication that he is a priest on the title page, and professes emphatically to be writing an impartial history.

Also prevalent in Modern English are terms relating to the chivalric cultures which arose in the 12th century, an era of feudalism and crusading.

Descriptive notation exists in many language-based variants, the most prevalent being English descriptive notation and Spanish descriptive notation.

* An English spelling of an Irish surname prevalent in Northern County Donegal, Ireland

This involved, among other things, never speaking to a German if it could be avoided ( many pretended to speak no German, though it was then almost as prevalent as English is now ) and refusing to sit beside a German on public transportation.

They show that open-field agriculture was practiced in Wessex in Ine's time, and it is probable that this was also the prevalent agricultural method throughout the English midlands, and as far north and east as Lindsey and Deira.

The prevalent view today is that Old English symbel, Old Saxon symbal, sumbal ( Old High German * sumbal ) and Old Norse sumbl, all of which translate roughly as " feast, banquet, ( social ) gathering ", continue a Common Germanic * sumlan " banquet ", which would correspond to a PIE " joint meal " or " congregation " ( literally, symposium or assembly ).

Once Spanish become prevalent, and English was the lingua franca, the German nickname fell by the wayside.