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... published in the Dublin University Magazine for July , 1857. It is extremely simple , and , resting not upon arbitrary but upon natural or real distinctions , gives us the only view of the subject that can claim to be regarded as of a ...
... published in the Dublin University Magazine for July , 1857. It is extremely simple , and , resting not upon arbitrary but upon natural or real distinctions , gives us the only view of the subject that can claim to be regarded as of a ...
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... published in 1638 ; and both works are included in Dr. Giles's Six Old English Chronicles , 1848. They consist principally of violent invectives directed against his own countrymen as well as their continental invaders and conquerors ...
... published in 1638 ; and both works are included in Dr. Giles's Six Old English Chronicles , 1848. They consist principally of violent invectives directed against his own countrymen as well as their continental invaders and conquerors ...
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... published by Mr. Gunn in his edition of the Vatican text , is reprinted by Dr. Giles in his Six Old English Chronicles . But the most curious and impor- tant volume connected with Nennius is that published in 1847 by the Irish ...
... published by Mr. Gunn in his edition of the Vatican text , is reprinted by Dr. Giles in his Six Old English Chronicles . But the most curious and impor- tant volume connected with Nennius is that published in 1847 by the Irish ...
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... published in the ori- ginal , accompanied with Latin translations , in Dr. O'Conor's Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Veteres , 4 vols . 4to . , Bucking- ham , 1814-1826 ; a splendid monument of the munificence of his Grace the late Duke ...
... published in the ori- ginal , accompanied with Latin translations , in Dr. O'Conor's Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Veteres , 4 vols . 4to . , Bucking- ham , 1814-1826 ; a splendid monument of the munificence of his Grace the late Duke ...
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... published by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth century , is really what it professes to be , at least in the main , a translation from a much older Welsh original . The Laws of Howel Dha , who reigned in South Wales in the early part ...
... published by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth century , is really what it professes to be , at least in the main , a translation from a much older Welsh original . The Laws of Howel Dha , who reigned in South Wales in the early part ...
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