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... gave an employ- ment it enjoyed to the Arabic mind . Avicenna , the great Arabian philosopher , says that he began study by reading the Metaphysics of Aristotle forty times without under- standing them . Avicenna lived as a most famous ...
... gave an employ- ment it enjoyed to the Arabic mind . Avicenna , the great Arabian philosopher , says that he began study by reading the Metaphysics of Aristotle forty times without under- standing them . Avicenna lived as a most famous ...
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... gave way , more or less completely , to the language of the con- querors . In this country , Rome had only outposts among a hostile British population , and did not remain long enough to come into much contact with the First - English ...
... gave way , more or less completely , to the language of the con- querors . In this country , Rome had only outposts among a hostile British population , and did not remain long enough to come into much contact with the First - English ...
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... Gaul Attila passed as a scourge , and the confederation of the German tribes known as the Franks - Salii , Ripuarii , Sicambri , Bructeri , Chamavi - who at an early date gave to the country subject to I 2 [ A.D. 800 ENGLISH WRITERS .
... Gaul Attila passed as a scourge , and the confederation of the German tribes known as the Franks - Salii , Ripuarii , Sicambri , Bructeri , Chamavi - who at an early date gave to the country subject to I 2 [ A.D. 800 ENGLISH WRITERS .
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An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature Henry Morley. at an early date gave to the country subject to them the name of Francia , made their way into Gaul by advance to the Somme through conquered Belgium . In those different ...
An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature Henry Morley. at an early date gave to the country subject to them the name of Francia , made their way into Gaul by advance to the Somme through conquered Belgium . In those different ...
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... gave away gratuitously , for which reason , perhaps , so little care was taken of them that they all are lost . He did not leave Ratisbon , but immured himself in a cell there , for which reason he is also called " Inclusus ; " and it ...
... gave away gratuitously , for which reason , perhaps , so little care was taken of them that they all are lost . He did not leave Ratisbon , but immured himself in a cell there , for which reason he is also called " Inclusus ; " and it ...
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