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Excerpt from An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Vol. 1 of 2
It will not be denied, I suppose, that English and anglo-saxon are, at least, sister-languages, and if so, as the offspring of a same parent, at one stage of existence an identical language. And if we believe (which I do) the anglo-saxon and the Low Saxon (still surviving, in the main, in what we now call the Dutch) were once the same language, our own must at one period have been as these then were, also the same language.
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