Statistics for occurrence #1 of “German” in chapter 17, page 190 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
...e I am not acquainted, disarms criticism.
This explanation implies that he was personally acquainted with the six Gothic languages of Northern Europe—Anglo-Saxon, Icelandish, Danish, Swedish, German , and Dutch—and the four Latin languages of the South of Europe—
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