For three centuries after the battle of Hastings French was
the language of the upper classes, of courts and schools and
literature; yet so tenaciously did the common people cling to
their own strong speech that in the end English absorbed almost
the whole body of French words and became the language of the
land. It was the welding of Saxon and French into one speech
that produced the wealth of our modern English.--WILLIAM J.
LONG, “English Literature.”
(1752)
=Large-heartedness=--See FRIEND, THE ORPHAN’S.
=Larger, The, Extinguishing the Smaller=--See SUNLIGHT
AND STARLIGHT.