English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... says of himself , was from childhood in the habit of noting and remember- ing events , especially those which concerned the Church . * His genius in this respect made him an admirable chronicler . He wrote in six books of clear Latin a ...
... says of himself , was from childhood in the habit of noting and remember- ing events , especially those which concerned the Church . * His genius in this respect made him an admirable chronicler . He wrote in six books of clear Latin a ...
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... says that he began study by reading the Metaphysics of Aristotle forty times without under- standing them . Avicenna lived as a most famous philo- sopher and physician while Canute was king in England , and the Arabian Averroes was ...
... says that he began study by reading the Metaphysics of Aristotle forty times without under- standing them . Avicenna lived as a most famous philo- sopher and physician while Canute was king in England , and the Arabian Averroes was ...
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... says Gibbon , " has been insensibly formed by the admixture of nations ; " so has the modern Frenchman . In northern France it has been inferred by Savigny , from comparison of social laws , that the Franks settled numer- ously , and ...
... says Gibbon , " has been insensibly formed by the admixture of nations ; " so has the modern Frenchman . In northern France it has been inferred by Savigny , from comparison of social laws , that the Franks settled numer- ously , and ...
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... says Athelard , " it is the inborn vice . of this generation to think nothing discovered by the moderns worth receiving - whence it comes that if you wish to publish anything of your own you say , putting it off on another person , It ...
... says Athelard , " it is the inborn vice . of this generation to think nothing discovered by the moderns worth receiving - whence it comes that if you wish to publish anything of your own you say , putting it off on another person , It ...
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... says that , as they are more divine than earthly things , they take a purer diet , for they feed on the humidities of earth and water , thinned as they are drawn up through a vast space . ' " " * That opinion prevailed for many ...
... says that , as they are more divine than earthly things , they take a purer diet , for they feed on the humidities of earth and water , thinned as they are drawn up through a vast space . ' " " * That opinion prevailed for many ...
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