English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... died in England in the year 1089 , an old man of eighty - four , who for nineteen years had been Archbishop of Canterbury . B - VOL . III . Lanfranc . At Canterbury he rebuilt the cathedral , was high in favour FROM THE CONQUEST TO ...
... died in England in the year 1089 , an old man of eighty - four , who for nineteen years had been Archbishop of Canterbury . B - VOL . III . Lanfranc . At Canterbury he rebuilt the cathedral , was high in favour FROM THE CONQUEST TO ...
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... died three or four years afterwards , in high esteem at Rome , without having been made a bishop . As Anselm's pupil , afterwards his friend , his spiritual director by the Pope's appointment , and his companion when , having offended ...
... died three or four years afterwards , in high esteem at Rome , without having been made a bishop . As Anselm's pupil , afterwards his friend , his spiritual director by the Pope's appointment , and his companion when , having offended ...
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... dying only at the begin- ning of the fifth . Eadmer was to the backbone a monk , strict in all claims of ecclesiastical power ; but , like Anselm , he was a monk with a breath of original genius . It de- lighted him to hear Anselm , who ...
... dying only at the begin- ning of the fifth . Eadmer was to the backbone a monk , strict in all claims of ecclesiastical power ; but , like Anselm , he was a monk with a breath of original genius . It de- lighted him to hear Anselm , who ...
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... died sixteen years before King Alfred's birth , and was in his own way the great Alfred of the Arabs , who promoted to the utmost of his large opportunities the spread of literature and art among his people . He gathered the learned to ...
... died sixteen years before King Alfred's birth , and was in his own way the great Alfred of the Arabs , who promoted to the utmost of his large opportunities the spread of literature and art among his people . He gathered the learned to ...
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... died of hunger ; some went seeking alms who at one while were rich men ; some fled out of the land . Never yet had more wretched- ness been in the land , nor did heathen men ever do worse than they did ; for everywhere at times they ...
... died of hunger ; some went seeking alms who at one while were rich men ; some fled out of the land . Never yet had more wretched- ness been in the land , nor did heathen men ever do worse than they did ; for everywhere at times they ...
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