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... John of Salisbury ; Peter of Blois 60 Classical Learning ; Mathematics ; Medicine ; Law ; Books 63 The Latin Language in England after the Norman Conquest Latin Poets : -Mapes , etc .. 68 69 Latin Chroniclers ; Collections 71 Ingulphus ...
... John of Salisbury ; Peter of Blois 60 Classical Learning ; Mathematics ; Medicine ; Law ; Books 63 The Latin Language in England after the Norman Conquest Latin Poets : -Mapes , etc .. 68 69 Latin Chroniclers ; Collections 71 Ingulphus ...
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... John Gower 306 John Barbour 317 Compound English Prose : - Mandeville ; Trevisa ; Wiclif ; Chaucer * 331 • Universities in the Fifteenth Century 348 Revival of Letters : -Invention of Printing 354 Printing in England : -Caxton . 357 ...
... John Gower 306 John Barbour 317 Compound English Prose : - Mandeville ; Trevisa ; Wiclif ; Chaucer * 331 • Universities in the Fifteenth Century 348 Revival of Letters : -Invention of Printing 354 Printing in England : -Caxton . 357 ...
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... John Davies Donne Shakespeare's Minor Poems 549 550 551 556 557 Shakespeare's Dramatic Works . Dramatic Writers contemporary with Shakespeare : -Chapman ; Webster ; Middleton ; Decker ; Chettle ; Marston ; Tailor ; Tourneur ; Rowley ...
... John Davies Donne Shakespeare's Minor Poems 549 550 551 556 557 Shakespeare's Dramatic Works . Dramatic Writers contemporary with Shakespeare : -Chapman ; Webster ; Middleton ; Decker ; Chettle ; Marston ; Tailor ; Tourneur ; Rowley ...
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... John's Gospel into his native tongue . Among his last utterances to his affectionate disciples watching around his bed were some reci- tations in the English language : " For , " says the account , " he was very learned in our songs ...
... John's Gospel into his native tongue . Among his last utterances to his affectionate disciples watching around his bed were some reci- tations in the English language : " For , " says the account , " he was very learned in our songs ...
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... John Chrysostom , Athelmus , Bede , Victorinus , Boethius ; the ancient historical writers , as he calls them , Pompeius ( most probable Justin , the epitomizer of the lost Trogus Pompeius ) , and Pliny ; Aristotle , Cicero ; the later ...
... John Chrysostom , Athelmus , Bede , Victorinus , Boethius ; the ancient historical writers , as he calls them , Pompeius ( most probable Justin , the epitomizer of the lost Trogus Pompeius ) , and Pliny ; Aristotle , Cicero ; the later ...
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