By the time anything resembling a language policy was introduced, English had already reached all corners of the globe. For example, English-speaking puritans were not the only Europeans to arrive in North America: Spanish, French, Dutch and German were also widely spoken.
immemorial - long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history; time immemorial. old - of long duration; not new; old tradition; old house; old wine; old country; old friendships; old money.
Aristotle referred to the enthymeme as the body of proof, the strongest of rhetorical proofs...a kind of syllogism (Rhetoric I.I.3,11). He considered it to be one of two kinds of proof, the other of which was the paradeigma.