OLD ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND
EXERCISE BOOK.
[ PART I.]
INTRODUCTION.
[ CHAPTER I.]
History.
[1.]
The history of the English language falls naturally into three periods; but these periods blend into one another so gradually that too much significance must not be attached to the exact dates which scholars, chiefly for convenience of treatment, have assigned as their limits. Our language, it is true, has undergone many and great changes; but its continuity has never been broken, and its individuality has never been lost.