A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 1 |
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... beginning of the present century . Many names , however , have also been noticed . in these volumes which have no pretensions to be considered as even of second - rate importance , but yet some information in regard to which , if it ...
... beginning of the present century . Many names , however , have also been noticed . in these volumes which have no pretensions to be considered as even of second - rate importance , but yet some information in regard to which , if it ...
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... beginning and the inner operating spirit or external circumstances which have modified its shape and character . The literature will generally be acted upon by the language , and the language by the literature ; but each may have also ...
... beginning and the inner operating spirit or external circumstances which have modified its shape and character . The literature will generally be acted upon by the language , and the language by the literature ; but each may have also ...
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... beginning the work of thus training up the national mind to a Roman character . Tacitus informs us that he took measures for having the sons of the chiefs educated in the liberal arts , excit- ing them at the same time by professing to ...
... beginning the work of thus training up the national mind to a Roman character . Tacitus informs us that he took measures for having the sons of the chiefs educated in the liberal arts , excit- ing them at the same time by professing to ...
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... beginning of the second century , speaks , in one of his Satires , of eloquent Gaul instructing the pleaders of Britain . But even already forensic acquirements must have become very general in the latter country and the surrounding ...
... beginning of the second century , speaks , in one of his Satires , of eloquent Gaul instructing the pleaders of Britain . But even already forensic acquirements must have become very general in the latter country and the surrounding ...
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... beginning of the eighth century , is in Latin , and was first printed , in folio , at London in 1574 , along with Alfred's Preface to his translation of Pope Gregory's Pastorale , at the end of Archbishop Parker's edition of the English ...
... beginning of the eighth century , is in Latin , and was first printed , in folio , at London in 1574 , along with Alfred's Preface to his translation of Pope Gregory's Pastorale , at the end of Archbishop Parker's edition of the English ...
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