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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... person of singular vanity , with a childlike thirst for petty distinctions . He loved , among other things , to trace his pedigree back to some Greek or Italian god or goddess , and , as genealogy was in Rome rather an exercise of the ...
... person of singular vanity , with a childlike thirst for petty distinctions . He loved , among other things , to trace his pedigree back to some Greek or Italian god or goddess , and , as genealogy was in Rome rather an exercise of the ...
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... persons of the Marian family became con- spicuous . One of these was the adopted son of the great Marius , the younger Gaius Marius , who was afterwards killed at Præneste . But nothing remarkable is recorded of him in this connection ...
... persons of the Marian family became con- spicuous . One of these was the adopted son of the great Marius , the younger Gaius Marius , who was afterwards killed at Præneste . But nothing remarkable is recorded of him in this connection ...
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... persons already in monasterio constituti . ' Still the religious life was probably yet far from definite , and these precepts would come to contemporaries with a certain force of novelty and a weight derived from the fame and sanctity ...
... persons already in monasterio constituti . ' Still the religious life was probably yet far from definite , and these precepts would come to contemporaries with a certain force of novelty and a weight derived from the fame and sanctity ...
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... person of the aforesaid Llywelyn and in him his heirs by hereditary succession , from his own liberality and favour , and with the will and assent of the lord Edward , grants to Llywelyn and his heirs the Principality of Wales , so that ...
... person of the aforesaid Llywelyn and in him his heirs by hereditary succession , from his own liberality and favour , and with the will and assent of the lord Edward , grants to Llywelyn and his heirs the Principality of Wales , so that ...
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... persons . The ' Caursini ' or Christian money - lenders whom Matthew Paris holds up to execration are , indeed , these same Italians . Open infringement of the laws against usury was not allowed . On the Patent Rolls under the date May ...
... persons . The ' Caursini ' or Christian money - lenders whom Matthew Paris holds up to execration are , indeed , these same Italians . Open infringement of the laws against usury was not allowed . On the Patent Rolls under the date May ...
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