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| A.D. | page | |
| English not taught at schools | 335 | |
| Good influence of the Classics | 336 | |
| Punch a good English critic | 337 | |
| We borrow from all sides | 338 | |
| We send our own staple abroad | 339 | |
| Bad English of a Queen's Speech | 340 | |
| Watchwords of English History | 341 | |
| Simplicity recommended by Mr. Freeman | 342 | |
| We have improved on our fathers | 343 | |
| Three ways of writing English | 344 | |
| Teutonic, Romance, and Penny-a-lining | 345 | |
| Parable of a maiden's dress | 346 | |
| Sometimes neat, sometimes outrageous | 347 | |
| Chaucer's advice to fine writers | 348 |
twelve hundred years of english.
| 680. | Lines on the Ruthwell Cross | 349 |
| 737. | Lines by Cadmon | 350 |
| 800-900. | Northumbrian Psalter - Rushworth Gospels | 351 |
| 970. | Lindisfarne Gospels | 352 |
| 1090. | St. Edmund's Legend | 353, 354 |
| 1220. | The Ancren Riwle | 355, 356, 357 |
| 1356. | Sir John Mandeville | 358, 359 |
| 1450. | Bishop Pecock | 360 |
| 1550. | Lever | 361, 362 |
| 1668. | Cowley | 363, 364 |
| 1776. | Gibbon | 365, 366 |
| 1872. | Morris | 367, 368 |
| Advice as to Studying English | 369 | |
| Antiquam exquirite Matrem | 370 |
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