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Use in Literature

Celt

Celts and Britons were impressed with this idea.–Swami Abhedananda in Reincarnation.

And as in material civilisation he has been ineffectual, so has the Celt been ineffectual in politics.–Matthew Arnold in Celtic Literature.

Balance, measure, and patience, these are the eternal conditions, even supposing the happiest temperament to start with, of high success; and balance, measure, and patience are just what the Celt has never had.–Matthew Arnold in Celtic Literature.

Celtic romance is full of exquisite touches like that, showing the delicacy of the Celt's feeling in these matters, and how deeply nature lets him come into her secrets.–Matthew Arnold in Celtic Literature.

Do not let us wish that the Celt had had less sensibility, but that he had been more master of it.–Matthew Arnold in Celtic Literature.

Here, too, his want of sanity and steadfastness has kept the Celt back from the highest success.–Matthew Arnold in Celtic Literature.

Here, too, we may trace a gradation between Celt, Englishman, and German, the difference which distinguishes Englishman from German appearing attributable to a Celtic element in us.–Matthew Arnold in Celtic Literature.

Let them consider that new ideas and forces are stirring in England, that day by day these new ideas and forces gain in power, and that almost every one of them is the friend of the Celt and not his enemy.–Matthew Arnold in Celtic Literature.

No service England can render the Celts by giving you a share in her many good qualities, can surpass that which the Celts can at this moment render England, by communicating to us some of theirs.–Matthew Arnold in Celtic Literature.

Philology, however, that science which in our time has had so many successes, has not been abandoned by her good fortune in touching the Celt; philology has brought, almost for the first time in their lives, the Celt and sound criticism together.–Matthew Arnold in Celtic Literature.

• Preface vii
• Use in Literature 1
• Celt 1
• Celt – "Farther" 7
• Celt – "Great" 8
• Celt – "Man" 8
• Celt – "World" 9
• Saxon 9
• Saxon – "Ancestor" 26
• Saxon – "Approaching" 26
• Saxon – "Arms" 27
• Saxon – "Army" 28
• Saxon – "Battle" 29
• Saxon – "Being" 30
• Saxon – "Billy" 30
• Saxon – "Bodies" 34
• Saxon – "Bohemia" 34
• Saxon – "Bond" 35
• Saxon – "Caught" 36
• Saxon – "Cause" 36
• Saxon – "Chiefs" 37
• Saxon – "Christian" 38
• Saxon – "Closed" 38
• Saxon – "Come" 39
• Saxon – "Country" 41
• Saxon – "Court" 42
• Saxon – "Danes" 42
• Saxon – "Danish" 45
• Saxon – "Days" 46
• Saxon – "Death" 47
• Saxon – "Different" 48
• Saxon – "Dragon" 49
• Saxon – "Duke" 49
• Saxon – "Early" 50
• Saxon – "Emperor" 51
• Saxon – "End" 52
• Saxon – "English" 52
• Saxon – "Eyes" 53
• Saxon – "Fall" 54
• Saxon – "Felt" 55
• Saxon – "Few" 55
• Saxon – "Fighting" 56
• Saxon – "Forced" 57
• Saxon – "Found" 58
• Saxon – "Full" 58
• Saxon – "Germans" 59
• Saxon – "God" 60
• Saxon – "Hands" 61
• Saxon – "Harold" 62
• Saxon – "Heard" 63
• Saxon – "Heart" 63
• Saxon – "Herself" 64
• Saxon – "Hope" 65
• Saxon – "House" 65
• Saxon – "Keep" 67
• Saxon – "King" 68
• Saxon – "Knight" 73
• Saxon – "Land" 73
• Saxon – "Language" 74
• Saxon – "Laws" 75
• Saxon – "Leading" 75
• Saxon – "Leave" 76
• Saxon – "Little" 76
• Saxon – "Looks" 78
• Saxon – "Lost" 79
• Saxon – "Made" 80
• Saxon – "Mary" 82
• Saxon – "Mean" 83
• Saxon – "Mercedes" 84
• Saxon – "Miss" 84
• Saxon – "Morning" 86
• Saxon – "Mother" 87
• Saxon – "Name" 87
• Saxon – "New" 88
• Saxon – "Night" 89
• Saxon – "Norman" 89
• Saxon – "North" 92
• Saxon – "Nothing" 92
• Saxon – "Old" 93
• Saxon – "Once" 96
• Saxon – "Opened" 97
• Saxon – "Part" 98
• Saxon – "People" 99
• Saxon – "Period" 100
• Saxon – "Placed" 100
• Saxon – "Prince" 101
• Saxon – "Protected" 103
• Saxon – "Prussia" 104
• Saxon – "Rest" 104
• Saxon – "Return" 105
• Saxon – "Roman" 105
• Saxon – "Sent" 106
• Saxon – "Settled" 107
• Saxon – "Show" 107
• Saxon – "Side" 108
• Saxon – "Sons" 109
• Saxon – "Soon" 109
• Saxon – "Spirit" 111
• Saxon – "Spite" 111
• Saxon – "Standard" 112
• Saxon – "State" 112
• Saxon – "Subject" 113
• Saxon – "Succeed" 113
• Saxon – "Things" 114
• Saxon – "Think" 115
• Saxon – "Thus" 116
• Saxon – "Times" 117
• Saxon – "Troops" 117
• Saxon – "United" 118
• Saxon – "Vessels" 119
• Saxon – "Vincent" 119
• Saxon – "Wars" 120
• Saxon – "Woman" 121
• Saxon – "Words" 121
• Saxon – "Young" 122
• Nonfiction Usage 124
• Journalism Usage 124
• Governmental Usage 125
• Bibliographic Usage 125
• Encyclopedic Usage 147
• Lexicographic Usage 215
• Index 289