Volume V. Nineteenth Century from Sir Walter Scott to Robert

Louis Stevenson.

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THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

BY OLIVER FARRAR EMERSON, A.M., Ph.D.,

_Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and English Philology in Cornell University_.

Second Edition, Revised. 12mo. pp. 415. Cloth.

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