Richard Trench 1855 English Past And Present

.v:i'--y\. THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES GIFT Perigord:"' %,■ A'. in 2008 witli funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littp://www.arcliive.org/details/englislipastpreseOOtren PAST AND PRESENT PAST AND PRESENT BY RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, D.D. ARCHBISHOP FOURTEENTH EDITION REVISED AND IN PART REWRITTEN BY A. L. MAYHEW, M.A. " JOINT-AUTHOR OF ' THK CONCISE MIDDLE ENGLISH DICTIONARY LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO., i PATERNOSTER SQUARE l88g { Tke fights of translation and of reproduction are reserved) PREFACE THE PRESENT EDITION. IT is exactly thirty years ago since I was first introduced to Trench's ' English Past and Present' I remember the day as if it was yesterday — it was some day in June 1859 — when my schoolmaster, Charles Pritchard, the present Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford, put into my hands ' English Past and Present,' not as a class-book, but as a book recommended for private reading. The book (the third edition, revised) lies before me at the present moment, having been carefully treasured as a precious relic of the past. I have to thank Charles Pritchard for many good things, but especially for having introduced me to this book. I have always looked upon this event as an epoch in my life. For English * Past and Present ' opened my eyes to a new world — the fascinating World of Words. I…