An Historical Sketch of the Progress and Present State of Anglo-Saxon Literature in EnglandLumley, 1840 - 180 pages |
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... collected materials , I found compression was absolutely necessary ; but this has been effected so as least to affect the original plan ; notwithstanding which , it has extended to nearly twice that number . An occasional digression has ...
... collected materials , I found compression was absolutely necessary ; but this has been effected so as least to affect the original plan ; notwithstanding which , it has extended to nearly twice that number . An occasional digression has ...
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... Collections - Saxon Charter of William I. - Voyages of Oh- there and Wulstan , in Hakluyt - Prayers , Creeds , & c . , by Freherus - Tem- porary decline of Saxon Learning - Camden , his Remains - Verstegan- L'Isle's Saxon Monuments ...
... Collections - Saxon Charter of William I. - Voyages of Oh- there and Wulstan , in Hakluyt - Prayers , Creeds , & c . , by Freherus - Tem- porary decline of Saxon Learning - Camden , his Remains - Verstegan- L'Isle's Saxon Monuments ...
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... Collections of the Rev. J. Webb , used by Mr. Bosworth - Continental Scholars and their Works ; Grimm , Thorkelin , Rask , Grundtvig — Conybeare's Lectures on Anglo - Saxon Poetry ; his Illustrations projected - Heywood on Distinction ...
... Collections of the Rev. J. Webb , used by Mr. Bosworth - Continental Scholars and their Works ; Grimm , Thorkelin , Rask , Grundtvig — Conybeare's Lectures on Anglo - Saxon Poetry ; his Illustrations projected - Heywood on Distinction ...
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... collections in which our own country is perhaps richer than any other . The religion introduced by Gregory and Augustin was , of course , that professed at Rome . It was a compound of doc- trines , ritual , discipline , and polity ...
... collections in which our own country is perhaps richer than any other . The religion introduced by Gregory and Augustin was , of course , that professed at Rome . It was a compound of doc- trines , ritual , discipline , and polity ...
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... collected , that it was not spoiled or scattered by negligence . ‡ Egbert , who was archbishop of York in 712 , founded a noble library at York.§ It is of this library that Alcuin writes in one of his letters to the Emperor Charlemagne ...
... collected , that it was not spoiled or scattered by negligence . ‡ Egbert , who was archbishop of York in 712 , founded a noble library at York.§ It is of this library that Alcuin writes in one of his letters to the Emperor Charlemagne ...
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