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... Lord's Prayer , etc. , in Dialect of Kent , 1340 Mandevil : -Travels ; part of Prologue 331 332 333 99 Description of Jerusalem Account of Mahomet 334 337 " " " " " " 99 99 99 99 Wiclif : -Translation of Bible ; Song of Moses Last ...
... Lord's Prayer , etc. , in Dialect of Kent , 1340 Mandevil : -Travels ; part of Prologue 331 332 333 99 Description of Jerusalem Account of Mahomet 334 337 " " " " " " 99 99 99 99 Wiclif : -Translation of Bible ; Song of Moses Last ...
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... Lord Lyt- telton , from whom that epithet is quoted by Warton as a very happy one , has inadvertently written the Anacreon of the eleventh , instead of the twelfth , cen- tury . Mapes lived and wrote in the reigns of Henry II . and ...
... Lord Lyt- telton , from whom that epithet is quoted by Warton as a very happy one , has inadvertently written the Anacreon of the eleventh , instead of the twelfth , cen- tury . Mapes lived and wrote in the reigns of Henry II . and ...
Page 78
... Chronicis , was printed in 4to . at London in 1592 , under the care of Lord William Howard , and reprinted 78 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE . Henry of Huntingdon Gesta Stephani; William of Jumieges Florence of Worcester.
... Chronicis , was printed in 4to . at London in 1592 , under the care of Lord William Howard , and reprinted 78 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE . Henry of Huntingdon Gesta Stephani; William of Jumieges Florence of Worcester.
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... Lord William Howard , Warden of the Western Marches , the " Belted Will Howard " of Border tradition , whose castle of Naworth , in Cum- berland , where his bedroom and library were preserved , with the books and furniture , in the same ...
... Lord William Howard , Warden of the Western Marches , the " Belted Will Howard " of Border tradition , whose castle of Naworth , in Cum- berland , where his bedroom and library were preserved , with the books and furniture , in the same ...
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... Lord Hailes has adduced sufficient reasons for believing it to be by Turgot to whom it is ascribed by Fordun . See his Annals of Scotland , i . 36 , 37 ( edit . of 1819 ) . are all in Twysden's Collection ; and the English History G 2 ...
... Lord Hailes has adduced sufficient reasons for believing it to be by Turgot to whom it is ascribed by Fordun . See his Annals of Scotland , i . 36 , 37 ( edit . of 1819 ) . are all in Twysden's Collection ; and the English History G 2 ...
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