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Title: English Past and Present

Author: Richard Chenevix Trench

Editor: A. Smythe Palmer

Release Date: March 25, 2007 [EBook #20900]

Language: English

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ENGLISH
PAST AND PRESENT

BY

RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, D.D.

_Edited with Emendations_

BY

A. SMYTHE PALMER, D.D.

_Author of 'The Folk and their Word-lore,' 'Folk-Etymology,'
'Babylonian Influence on the Bible,' etc._

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1905

EDITOR'S PREFACE

In editing the present volume I have thought it well to follow the same
rule which I laid down for myself in editing _The Study of Words_, and
have made no alteration in the text of Dr. Trench's work (the fifth
edition). Any corrections or additions that seemed to be dema