Word: alienations
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...considering the influences at work on the English, terms of law, of the church, and words for articles of necessity and consumption would naturally be those in which the alien would triumph over the native nomenclature. In the third class we should of course expect to find the greatest number of examples,- the producers being Saxon and the consumers Norman. Thus for instance we have ox, sheep, calf, swine, on the one hand, to designate the thing produced, all Saxon-and, on the other, beef, mutton, veal, pork, all Norman-French-to indicate the thing consumed. In the same...
...frequentem domum concursu splendidissimorum hominum, and our minds acquire that tone of good society which only such intercourse can give. Remember, that as all roads lead to Rome, so from a really great book avenues open out that invite our curiosity and interest toward the most various and seemingly alien domains of thought...
Best general references: Report on Alien Immigration by Messrs. Schloss and Burnett, 1893; North Am. Review, vol. 156, pp. 220 ff; Forum, XIII...
Last evening Professor Fay addressed the Christian Association on the "History of the Psalms." It is remarkable that a book written by an alien people several thousand years ago should be adopted by the churches today as the fullest expression of their religious life. The book of Psalms stands forth among similar books of the world, as a national hymn book which contains to a great extent the record of the life of the people...
Resolved, That we brand this deed as alien in its spirit to the true standard of Yale life, and arraign its doers before the bar of public sentiment as guilty of defaming the good name of Yale...