# History in English words

Author: Barfield, Owen, 1898-1997

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71332

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=History+in+English+words+Barfield&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

If somebody showed us a document which he said was an unpublished letter of Dr. Johnson’s, and on reading it through we came across the word “telephone”, we should be fairly justified in sending him about his business. The fact that there was no such thing as a telephone until many years after Johnson’s death would leave no doubt whatever in our minds that the letter was not written by him. If we cared to go farther, we could say with equal certainty that the letter was written since the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the telephone was invented.

## Chapters

- [Chapter VI, that teasing sense of a contrast, a lack of connection,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/13/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-in-english-words-71332/chapters/1/index.md)