A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 1 |
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... learned in our songs ; and , putting his thoughts into English verse , he spoke it with compunction . " 99 Beside King Alfred's version in the earlier form of the lan- guage , there are translations of Bede's Ecclesiastical History into ...
... learned in our songs ; and , putting his thoughts into English verse , he spoke it with compunction . " 99 Beside King Alfred's version in the earlier form of the lan- guage , there are translations of Bede's Ecclesiastical History into ...
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... learned annotation , making it almost a cyclopædia both of Irish history and of Irish topography . * To the Archæological Society , founded in 1840 , and now united with the Celtic Society , we owe also many other important pub ...
... learned annotation , making it almost a cyclopædia both of Irish history and of Irish topography . * To the Archæological Society , founded in 1840 , and now united with the Celtic Society , we owe also many other important pub ...
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... learned friend Adrian , Bede informs us , delivered instructions to crowds of pupils , not only in divinity , but also in astronomy , medicine , arithmetic , and the Greek and Latin languages . Bede states that some of the scholars of ...
... learned friend Adrian , Bede informs us , delivered instructions to crowds of pupils , not only in divinity , but also in astronomy , medicine , arithmetic , and the Greek and Latin languages . Bede states that some of the scholars of ...
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... learned Mosheim had previously shown the study of the scholastic or Aristotelian philosophy to have been also of Irish origin . " That the Hibernians , " says that writer , " who were called Scots in this [ the eighth ] century , were ...
... learned Mosheim had previously shown the study of the scholastic or Aristotelian philosophy to have been also of Irish origin . " That the Hibernians , " says that writer , " who were called Scots in this [ the eighth ] century , were ...
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... learned languages useful that now lay unopened , " I wondered greatly , " he says in the Preface to his translation of the Pastorale , " that of those good wise men who were formerly in our nation , and who had all learned fully these ...
... learned languages useful that now lay unopened , " I wondered greatly , " he says in the Preface to his translation of the Pastorale , " that of those good wise men who were formerly in our nation , and who had all learned fully these ...
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