Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volumes 1-2C. Knight & Company, 1844 - English language |
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... compositions , as well as in the services of the Church , both in our own country and in the other parts of Europe that had composed the old empire of Rome . When the South of Britain became a part of the Roman empire , the inhabitants ...
... compositions , as well as in the services of the Church , both in our own country and in the other parts of Europe that had composed the old empire of Rome . When the South of Britain became a part of the Roman empire , the inhabitants ...
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... composition of things . In another part he inserts a very elaborate discussion on arithmetic , which he says he had learnt from his infancy . He also details a curious conversation on the elements of things , on the motions of the ...
... composition of things . In another part he inserts a very elaborate discussion on arithmetic , which he says he had learnt from his infancy . He also details a curious conversation on the elements of things , on the motions of the ...
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... compositions that have been preserved are of the fifth century . Some fragments of metrical productions to which this date is attributed are found in the old annalists , and more abundant specimens occur in the same records under each ...
... compositions that have been preserved are of the fifth century . Some fragments of metrical productions to which this date is attributed are found in the old annalists , and more abundant specimens occur in the same records under each ...
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... compositions of the bards . They consist of accounts of events related for the most part both with sobriety and precision , and with the careful notation of dates that might be expected from a contemporary and official recorder . They ...
... compositions of the bards . They consist of accounts of events related for the most part both with sobriety and precision , and with the careful notation of dates that might be expected from a contemporary and official recorder . They ...
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... compositions called the Triads , which are enumerations of events or other particulars , bound together in knots of ... composition which they exemplify was long in use ; and , if so , the comparatively modern character of some of them ...
... compositions called the Triads , which are enumerations of events or other particulars , bound together in knots of ... composition which they exemplify was long in use ; and , if so , the comparatively modern character of some of them ...
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