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The life of Cardinal Mezzofanti

Note 423 — Chapter VIII · [1828-1830.]

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At the time of the Restoration, Cornish was still a living language, especially in the West; but, a century later it had quite disappeared, its sole living representative being an old fish-woman, Dolly Pentrath, who was still able to curse and scold in her expressive vernacular. See Adelung, II. 152.

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