Show KOSSUTHS ENGLISH Reference has ben made in some of the obituary notices of Kossuth to the archaic and stiffly scholastic style of the English he used in his public I speeches and in his domestic vocabulary vocabu-lary as well This was due to the fact that he learned English by a careful study of Shakespeare the works of the great dramatist being one of the few books given him to read while he was in prison for political offenses Of the period he passed thus in confinement he afterwards said I was two years of life lost but it was all my after life gainedNew York World |