A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1882 - 478 Seiten |
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... took to the sea , and , landing at various parts of Britain at various times , drove back , after 150 years of hard fighting , the Britons , whom they called Welsh , to the land now called Wales , and to Cornwall . It is well for those ...
... took to the sea , and , landing at various parts of Britain at various times , drove back , after 150 years of hard fighting , the Britons , whom they called Welsh , to the land now called Wales , and to Cornwall . It is well for those ...
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... took the English tongue and made it the tongue in which history , philoso- phy , law , and religion spoke to the English people . No work was ever done more eagerly or more practically . He brought scholars from different parts of the ...
... took the English tongue and made it the tongue in which history , philoso- phy , law , and religion spoke to the English people . No work was ever done more eagerly or more practically . He brought scholars from different parts of the ...
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... took what was closest at hand , and made the best of it . The laws of Ini and Offa were codified and amended , justice was more rigidly administered , corporal punishment was substituted in most cases for the old blood - wite , or money ...
... took what was closest at hand , and made the best of it . The laws of Ini and Offa were codified and amended , justice was more rigidly administered , corporal punishment was substituted in most cases for the old blood - wite , or money ...
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... took up the same pursuits with eagerness . Ethelwald's school sent out from it a scholar and abbot named ELFRIC . He takes rank as the first large translator of the Bible , turning into English the first seven hooks and part of Job . We ...
... took up the same pursuits with eagerness . Ethelwald's school sent out from it a scholar and abbot named ELFRIC . He takes rank as the first large translator of the Bible , turning into English the first seven hooks and part of Job . We ...
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... took place , a desire arose for religious hand - books in the English tongue . ORMIN's Ormulum is a type of these . We may date it , though not precisely , at 1215 , the date of the Great Char- ter . It is entirely English , not five ...
... took place , a desire arose for religious hand - books in the English tongue . ORMIN's Ormulum is a type of these . We may date it , though not precisely , at 1215 , the date of the Great Char- ter . It is entirely English , not five ...
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