English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... became prior there , Herluin still living as abbot , and opened a school which he made famous by his teaching . Duke William made Prior Lanfranc one of his Counsellors of State , and when he obtained for William the permission of the ...
... became prior there , Herluin still living as abbot , and opened a school which he made famous by his teaching . Duke William made Prior Lanfranc one of his Counsellors of State , and when he obtained for William the permission of the ...
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... became also Anselm's biographer . He wrote the Life of Anselm in two books . He wrote Lives , too , of Wilfrid of York ; of the pious Bregwin , German born , who died Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 765 ; of Oswald of York ; and of ...
... became also Anselm's biographer . He wrote the Life of Anselm in two books . He wrote Lives , too , of Wilfrid of York ; of the pious Bregwin , German born , who died Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 765 ; of Oswald of York ; and of ...
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... became caliph in the same year that Charlemagne's son , Louis the Pious , succeeded to his father's empire ; he belongs , therefore , to the period between the days of Alcuin and those of Erigena . Al Mamoun died sixteen years before ...
... became caliph in the same year that Charlemagne's son , Louis the Pious , succeeded to his father's empire ; he belongs , therefore , to the period between the days of Alcuin and those of Erigena . Al Mamoun died sixteen years before ...
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... became mingled here with one , there with another , horde of German conquerors . Such conquerors , from use of their own languages among each other , passed , as well as they could , to use of the " lingua Romana or " lingua rustica ...
... became mingled here with one , there with another , horde of German conquerors . Such conquerors , from use of their own languages among each other , passed , as well as they could , to use of the " lingua Romana or " lingua rustica ...
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... became quickened ; and so there was a way made through the Church out of the Church , even by one of its narrowest and darkest passages , into the open world . From the South we trace also the beginning of en- deavour towards an ...
... became quickened ; and so there was a way made through the Church out of the Church , even by one of its narrowest and darkest passages , into the open world . From the South we trace also the beginning of en- deavour towards an ...
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