Historical Essays by Members of the Owens College, Manchester: Published in Commemoration of Its Jubilee (1851-1901)Thomas Frederick Tout, James Tait |
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... Kings the state of matters may have been different . But our knowledge of that early period is too scanty to enable us to determine whether the legends of the divine origin of Romulus or of Servius Tullius1 had any currency in the regal ...
... Kings the state of matters may have been different . But our knowledge of that early period is too scanty to enable us to determine whether the legends of the divine origin of Romulus or of Servius Tullius1 had any currency in the regal ...
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... king . Now in Sicily or Greece or Asia he was among subjects who for a long time had been accustomed to treat their kings as gods , and who were not in the least likely to refrain on account of constitutional scruples from paying a ...
... king . Now in Sicily or Greece or Asia he was among subjects who for a long time had been accustomed to treat their kings as gods , and who were not in the least likely to refrain on account of constitutional scruples from paying a ...
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... king , a faithful servant of the Lord , whose name in after ages no man knew . Now the king had no child , and therefore his heart was sad , and he prayed God that He would grant him this most precious gift . And God heard him and ...
... king , a faithful servant of the Lord , whose name in after ages no man knew . Now the king had no child , and therefore his heart was sad , and he prayed God that He would grant him this most precious gift . And God heard him and ...
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... king his father , and the words of Ursula seemed good to both . Then was the prince baptized , and fair maidens of noble birth were sought throughout Britain and brought to the palace . Then both kings called to themselves their ...
... king his father , and the words of Ursula seemed good to both . Then was the prince baptized , and fair maidens of noble birth were sought throughout Britain and brought to the palace . Then both kings called to themselves their ...
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... kings . During his English mission the Count had visited the famous city of Canter- bury , and had speech with Dunstan , its eminent archbishop . He had heard from Dunstan's own lips the story of the Virgin Martyrs , which in after ...
... kings . During his English mission the Count had visited the famous city of Canter- bury , and had speech with Dunstan , its eminent archbishop . He had heard from Dunstan's own lips the story of the Virgin Martyrs , which in after ...
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