Lord Watson has written a short book of great fascination and importance. It is a story that begins with an English sea voyage, and culminates in the voyage of the English language, a voyage that is now in full flood. Four hundred years have passed since that first voyage. In itself it was historic, taking the language of a small island to the coast of a vast continent. The British and the Americans who used it, as both grew in territorial and spiritual strength, came to treasure it. Not only is the wealth and diversity of ...
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Lord Watson has written a short book of great fascination and importance. It is a story that begins with an English sea voyage, and culminates in the voyage of the English language, a voyage that is now in full flood. Four hundred years have passed since that first voyage. In itself it was historic, taking the language of a small island to the coast of a vast continent. The British and the Americans who used it, as both grew in territorial and spiritual strength, came to treasure it. Not only is the wealth and diversity of English expanding every day, but the language coveys the past of the English-speaking peoples and the values that they learned over time: the central ideas of law, governance and free enterprise.
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