Category: History - British
When the 'Act to facilitate the provision of Allotments for the Labouring Classes' was before the House of Commons in 1887, a well-known member for a northern constituency asked the Minister who had charge of the measure for a definition of the term _allotment_, which occurred...
When the 'Act to facilitate the provision of Allotments for the Labouring Classes' was before the House of Commons in 1887, a well-known member for a northern constituency asked...
3. Chapter 3Bailey had many imitators and rivals, nearly all of whom aimed, like him, at including all words; of these I need only name Dyche and Pardon 1735, B.N. Defoe 1735, and Benjamin...
2. Chapter 2Of printed English-Latin works, after the _Promptorium_, one of the earliest was the _Vulgaria_ of William Herman, Headmaster and Provost of Eton, printed by Pynson in 1519. Thi...
4. Chapter 4[4] This is the primary reason why in Middle and Modern English, unlike what is found in German and Dutch, the terms of culture, art, science, and philosophy, are of French or,...