The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. With Illustrative Notes, a Map of Anglo-Saxon England and a General IndexG. Bell, 1887 - 515 pages |
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Page x
... possessed considerable know- ledge , not only in the Latin and Greek languages , but also in the Hebrew , although nothing remains which has been ascribed to him in that language , save a vocabulary , entitled ' Interpretatio Nominum ...
... possessed considerable know- ledge , not only in the Latin and Greek languages , but also in the Hebrew , although nothing remains which has been ascribed to him in that language , save a vocabulary , entitled ' Interpretatio Nominum ...
Page xv
... possessed it in equal perfection , the immortal Homer . Sect . 5. Of his supposed journey to Rome . THE peaceful tenor of Bede's monastic life was apparently uninterrupted by absence or travel , and his own words might be thought to ...
... possessed it in equal perfection , the immortal Homer . Sect . 5. Of his supposed journey to Rome . THE peaceful tenor of Bede's monastic life was apparently uninterrupted by absence or travel , and his own words might be thought to ...
Page xxvi
... possessed a volume in which were entered the obits of eminent individuals ; and the same custom probably pre- vailed throughout the other monastic establishments of Eng- land . " The history of the diocese of Rochester was communi ...
... possessed a volume in which were entered the obits of eminent individuals ; and the same custom probably pre- vailed throughout the other monastic establishments of Eng- land . " The history of the diocese of Rochester was communi ...
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... possessed themselves of the southern parts thereof . When they , beginning at the south , had made themselves masters of the greatest part of the island , it hap- pened , that the nation of the Picts , from Scythia , as is re- ported ...
... possessed themselves of the southern parts thereof . When they , beginning at the south , had made themselves masters of the greatest part of the island , it hap- pened , that the nation of the Picts , from Scythia , as is re- ported ...
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... possessed himself of Britain , and having most valiantly retained it for the space of seven years , he was at length put to death by the treachery of his associate , Allectus . The usurper , having thus got the island from Carausius ...
... possessed himself of Britain , and having most valiantly retained it for the space of seven years , he was at length put to death by the treachery of his associate , Allectus . The usurper , having thus got the island from Carausius ...
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