Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Jenner

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Last updated on December 2, 2024.
Henry Jenner

Henry Jenner was a British scholar of the Celtic languages, a Cornish cultural activist, and the chief originator of the Cornish language revival.

Born: 1848
The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness. — © Henry Jenner
The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.
There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language.
Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no great originality or value. The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornish.
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