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... late Hon . Algernon Herbert ] ; vol . i . 4to . 1836 , pp . 21 , 22. " 15 , line 22 ; for " various read " oldest . " 99 15 , line 3 from foot ; for " British " read " Irish . ” " " 99 " " 28 , line 25 ; for " Biscopt " read " Biscop ...
... late Hon . Algernon Herbert ] ; vol . i . 4to . 1836 , pp . 21 , 22. " 15 , line 22 ; for " various read " oldest . " 99 15 , line 3 from foot ; for " British " read " Irish . ” " " 99 " " 28 , line 25 ; for " Biscopt " read " Biscop ...
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... late Duke of Buckingham , at whose expense the work was prepared and printed , and from the treasures of whose library its contents were principally derived . Tigernach , the various of these Irish annalists , lived in the latter part ...
... late Duke of Buckingham , at whose expense the work was prepared and printed , and from the treasures of whose library its contents were principally derived . Tigernach , the various of these Irish annalists , lived in the latter part ...
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... late Record Commission edition of the Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales , by Anewrin Owen , Esq . , fol . 1841. They develop a state of society in which many primitive features are strangely mixed up with a general aspect of ...
... late Record Commission edition of the Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales , by Anewrin Owen , Esq . , fol . 1841. They develop a state of society in which many primitive features are strangely mixed up with a general aspect of ...
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... late writer , who considers them to be a compilation of the thirteenth century , admits that they " reflect , in a small and moderately faithful mirror , various passages of Bardic com position which are lost . " * Then there is the ...
... late writer , who considers them to be a compilation of the thirteenth century , admits that they " reflect , in a small and moderately faithful mirror , various passages of Bardic com position which are lost . " * Then there is the ...
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... late edition of Adamnan's Life of St. Columba ( in which nearly the whole of the other by Cuminius is incorporated ) , prepared for the Irish Archæological and Celtic Society by Dr. Reeves , 4to . Dublin , 1857 , while its DECAY OF THE ...
... late edition of Adamnan's Life of St. Columba ( in which nearly the whole of the other by Cuminius is incorporated ) , prepared for the Irish Archæological and Celtic Society by Dr. Reeves , 4to . Dublin , 1857 , while its DECAY OF THE ...
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