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... century , by the members of the Cambrian Archæological Association on the . occasion of their late visit to it , he might perhaps be induced to appropriate a portion of the liberal expenditure he allows for the benefit of his Shropshire ...
... century , by the members of the Cambrian Archæological Association on the . occasion of their late visit to it , he might perhaps be induced to appropriate a portion of the liberal expenditure he allows for the benefit of his Shropshire ...
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... century . Lleenog , his father , is a personage but little known , and what little is known respecting him is scattered and appropriated to other suppositious persons , so that a superficial reader is led to imagine the information to ...
... century . Lleenog , his father , is a personage but little known , and what little is known respecting him is scattered and appropriated to other suppositious persons , so that a superficial reader is led to imagine the information to ...
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... century . He appears ultimately to have been deprived of his property ; the services of others were offered for his reinstation , but " he rejected the uniform ranks of the hosts of Rhun , Nudd , and Nwython , " and preferred settling ...
... century . He appears ultimately to have been deprived of his property ; the services of others were offered for his reinstation , but " he rejected the uniform ranks of the hosts of Rhun , Nudd , and Nwython , " and preferred settling ...
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... century , ( Lhuyd on Letter K. , Arch . Brit . p . 228 , col . 1 , ) has been already translated in Meyrick's Cardiganshire ; but as the version there given is not strictly literal , I subjoin my own : - I. Since a vain person is thus ...
... century , ( Lhuyd on Letter K. , Arch . Brit . p . 228 , col . 1 , ) has been already translated in Meyrick's Cardiganshire ; but as the version there given is not strictly literal , I subjoin my own : - I. Since a vain person is thus ...
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... , however , that the critical judgment of the sixth century would have been less severe ; for it contains several illustrations of the peculiar rythmical versification which was much admired at 50 THE POEMS OF TALIESIN .
... , however , that the critical judgment of the sixth century would have been less severe ; for it contains several illustrations of the peculiar rythmical versification which was much admired at 50 THE POEMS OF TALIESIN .
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