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... saints , Oriental apologues , and many of the shorter fictitious narratives which came into Europe with the Arabian literature , and were familiar in the ages of ignorance and imagination . The classics are sometimes cited for au ...
... saints , Oriental apologues , and many of the shorter fictitious narratives which came into Europe with the Arabian literature , and were familiar in the ages of ignorance and imagination . The classics are sometimes cited for au ...
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... Saints of the whole Year . The second part , and with which I am now wholly concerned , is a PROMPTUARY , or ample repository of examples for composing sermons ; and in the prologue to this part the author says that Saint Dominic always ...
... Saints of the whole Year . The second part , and with which I am now wholly concerned , is a PROMPTUARY , or ample repository of examples for composing sermons ; and in the prologue to this part the author says that Saint Dominic always ...
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... Saint Foix's Essais Histo- riques sur Paris ' ( Historical Essays on Paris ) , in five , and in the latest editions in four duodecimo volumes . The four - volume edition , however , wants a good index , with which the earlier editions ...
... Saint Foix's Essais Histo- riques sur Paris ' ( Historical Essays on Paris ) , in five , and in the latest editions in four duodecimo volumes . The four - volume edition , however , wants a good index , with which the earlier editions ...
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... saints , but all would not prevail . Being at length schooled by the grave advice of some sage and expert father , who willed him to make his speedy repair to Ireland , where neither snake nor adder would live , he presently thereupon ...
... saints , but all would not prevail . Being at length schooled by the grave advice of some sage and expert father , who willed him to make his speedy repair to Ireland , where neither snake nor adder would live , he presently thereupon ...
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... Saint Albans , while yet a secular person , was invited over to England by Richard the then abbot to teach the school belonging to that monastery ; but , in consequence of some delay when Geof- frey arrived , the vacant office had been ...
... Saint Albans , while yet a secular person , was invited over to England by Richard the then abbot to teach the school belonging to that monastery ; but , in consequence of some delay when Geof- frey arrived , the vacant office had been ...
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