A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 1 |
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... mentioned , in the West , the Latin generally in the South , the Slavonic in the East , the Tschudic in the North , and the Gothic over the whole of the central region . The chief exception is , that one Tschudic language , the Madgyar ...
... mentioned , in the West , the Latin generally in the South , the Slavonic in the East , the Tschudic in the North , and the Gothic over the whole of the central region . The chief exception is , that one Tschudic language , the Madgyar ...
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... mention of a contemporary British writer whom he calls Sylvius Bonus , and whose native name is supposed to have been Coil the Good ; but of his works , or even of their titles or subjects , we know nothing . Ausonius , who seems to ...
... mention of a contemporary British writer whom he calls Sylvius Bonus , and whose native name is supposed to have been Coil the Good ; but of his works , or even of their titles or subjects , we know nothing . Ausonius , who seems to ...
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... mentioned the Roman law , the rules of Latin prosody , arithmetic , astronomy , and astrology . He is said to have written a tract on the great scientific question of the age , the proper method of computing Easter . Aldhelm's favourite ...
... mentioned the Roman law , the rules of Latin prosody , arithmetic , astronomy , and astrology . He is said to have written a tract on the great scientific question of the age , the proper method of computing Easter . Aldhelm's favourite ...
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... mention another contemporary of Bede's , Eddius , surnamed Stephanus , the author of a Latin life of Bishop Wilfrid . Bede mentions him as the first person who taught singing in the churches of Northumberland . THE CELTIC LANGUAGES AND ...
... mention another contemporary of Bede's , Eddius , surnamed Stephanus , the author of a Latin life of Bishop Wilfrid . Bede mentions him as the first person who taught singing in the churches of Northumberland . THE CELTIC LANGUAGES AND ...
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... mentioned the two Latin lives of Columba , the founder of the monastery of Iona , and its abbot from 563 till his death in 597 ; the first by Cuminius , who succeeded as abbot of Iona in 657 ; the second , which is of much greater ...
... mentioned the two Latin lives of Columba , the founder of the monastery of Iona , and its abbot from 563 till his death in 597 ; the first by Cuminius , who succeeded as abbot of Iona in 657 ; the second , which is of much greater ...
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