CHAPTER VI

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=PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES.=

PREFIXES.

1. English (or Teutonic) 70

2. Latin 71

3. Greek 72

SUFFIXES.

4. English (or Teutonic) 72

5. Latin 74

6. Greek 75

_LITERATURE._

=I. OUTLINE OF OUR EARLY LITERATURE.=

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1. The _Beowulf_ 76

2. Cædmon 76

3. Bæda 77

4. King Alfred 77

5. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 78

6. Archbishop Ælfric 78

7. Anglo-Saxon Gospels 78

8. Old English Dialects 79

9. First English Book after Norman Conquest 80

10. Orm’s _Ormulum_ 80

11. Langland and Chaucer 81

12. Alliteration or Head-Rhyme 82

13. John Gower 83

14. John Barbour 83

15. Sir John Mandeville 83

16. John Wicliffe 84

17. Our English Bible and its History 85

=II. TABULAR OUTLINE OF MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE= 87

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THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

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