The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 24Grolier Incorporated, 1999 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries A thirty-volume encyclopedia covering important world events while providing major new treatments of selected topics in various academic fields. |
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Page 408
... English de- scended from the northern dialect of Middle English . English is , in fact , the language of Scot- land , though it normally is not the English of London . Even in the Lowlands dozens of dia- lects of the vernacular can be ...
... English de- scended from the northern dialect of Middle English . English is , in fact , the language of Scot- land , though it normally is not the English of London . Even in the Lowlands dozens of dia- lects of the vernacular can be ...
Page 417
... English court and had married an English heiress . He reorganized the whole fabric of the Scottish Church and state on Anglo - Norman lines . The old Celtic use of collateral succession to the crown was replaced by primogeniture . Land ...
... English court and had married an English heiress . He reorganized the whole fabric of the Scottish Church and state on Anglo - Norman lines . The old Celtic use of collateral succession to the crown was replaced by primogeniture . Land ...
Page 420
... English Civil War . James VI knew when to stop , but his successor Charles I ( reigned 1625–1649 ) , unfamiliar with his Scots subjects , set out to complete what his father had begun . A book of canons , which altered doc- trine , was ...
... English Civil War . James VI knew when to stop , but his successor Charles I ( reigned 1625–1649 ) , unfamiliar with his Scots subjects , set out to complete what his father had begun . A book of canons , which altered doc- trine , was ...
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