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... says the author of an excellent article in Brockhaus ' Conv . - Lexicon , it may be gathered that Cynewulf lived in the eighth century , spent part of his life in secular efforts and affairs , perhaps as a strolling singer , whence the ...
... says the author of an excellent article in Brockhaus ' Conv . - Lexicon , it may be gathered that Cynewulf lived in the eighth century , spent part of his life in secular efforts and affairs , perhaps as a strolling singer , whence the ...
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... says , ' the translation of useful books into the language which we all understand ; so that all the youth of England , but more especially those who are of gentle kind and at ease in their circumstances , may be grounded in letters ...
... says , ' the translation of useful books into the language which we all understand ; so that all the youth of England , but more especially those who are of gentle kind and at ease in their circumstances , may be grounded in letters ...
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... says that he has framed the work under the character of one endeavouring to lift up his mind to the contemplation of ... say that he developed a great scheme of what we should now call rationalism , through taking up St. Anselm's ...
... says that he has framed the work under the character of one endeavouring to lift up his mind to the contemplation of ... say that he developed a great scheme of what we should now call rationalism , through taking up St. Anselm's ...
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... says : ' Wherefore , O glorious God , who badest Abraham to depart from his own land and his father's house , and the society of his kinsmen , thou didst put it into the heart of my father Odelirius to separate me entirely from himself ...
... says : ' Wherefore , O glorious God , who badest Abraham to depart from his own land and his father's house , and the society of his kinsmen , thou didst put it into the heart of my father Odelirius to separate me entirely from himself ...
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... says , ' The Expugnatio Hib . . . may be regarded rather as a great epic than a sober relation of acts occurring in his own days . No one can peruse it without coming to the conclusion that it is rather a poetical fiction than a prosaic ...
... says , ' The Expugnatio Hib . . . may be regarded rather as a great epic than a sober relation of acts occurring in his own days . No one can peruse it without coming to the conclusion that it is rather a poetical fiction than a prosaic ...
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