English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, limited, 1888 |
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... thoughts of many minds expressed in many tongues that were thus poured into the capital , Al Mamoun caused to be translated into Arabic . The modest band of copyists that Alcuin sent to York to transcribe books for the enrichment of the ...
... thoughts of many minds expressed in many tongues that were thus poured into the capital , Al Mamoun caused to be translated into Arabic . The modest band of copyists that Alcuin sent to York to transcribe books for the enrichment of the ...
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... thought . We find , then , that what took place among ourselves after the Norman con- quest , when First - English passed into modern English , had taken place already in the formation of that Norman French which enters now into our ...
... thought . We find , then , that what took place among ourselves after the Norman con- quest , when First - English passed into modern English , had taken place already in the formation of that Norman French which enters now into our ...
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... thought to be come of which it was written , " Whoso will go with me , let him take up his cross and follow me . " Our Lord him- self was regarded as the commander - in - chief of the crusade ; the Papal legate who went with the army ...
... thought to be come of which it was written , " Whoso will go with me , let him take up his cross and follow me . " Our Lord him- self was regarded as the commander - in - chief of the crusade ; the Papal legate who went with the army ...
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... thought wearisome , if I have committed to writing these few short particulars respecting my father , whom I have never seen since the day when , for the love of the Creator , he sent me into exile as if I had been a hateful stepson ...
... thought wearisome , if I have committed to writing these few short particulars respecting my father , whom I have never seen since the day when , for the love of the Creator , he sent me into exile as if I had been a hateful stepson ...
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... thoughts back from Orderic at St. Evroult to Bede at Jarrow , and he is among the better class of Eng- lish historians that followed Bede . He was sixty - seven years old at the close of his history . Had he lived on , he would have ...
... thoughts back from Orderic at St. Evroult to Bede at Jarrow , and he is among the better class of Eng- lish historians that followed Bede . He was sixty - seven years old at the close of his history . Had he lived on , he would have ...
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