William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England: From the Earliest Period to the Reign of King StephenG. Bell, 1895 - 544 pages |
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... labours . The result of this plan is , that the public are en- abled to purchase without delay and at an insignificant expense , the valuable contemporary historian , who has hitherto been like a sealed book to the public , or only ...
... labours . The result of this plan is , that the public are en- abled to purchase without delay and at an insignificant expense , the valuable contemporary historian , who has hitherto been like a sealed book to the public , or only ...
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... labours . Historians , antiquaries , or philosophers , may drink deeply of the stream which pervades his work , and find their thirst for information gratified . The diligent investigator of the earlier annals of his own country , finds ...
... labours . Historians , antiquaries , or philosophers , may drink deeply of the stream which pervades his work , and find their thirst for information gratified . The diligent investigator of the earlier annals of his own country , finds ...
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... labour , though diligent in the extreme , has , down to this period , been without its reward . There , are , indeed , some notices of antiquity , written in the vernacular tongue after the manner of a chronicle , * and arranged ...
... labour , though diligent in the extreme , has , down to this period , been without its reward . There , are , indeed , some notices of antiquity , written in the vernacular tongue after the manner of a chronicle , * and arranged ...
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... labours , or the regard of posterity . The Second Book will contain the chronological series of the Kings to the coming of the Normans . The three following Books will be employed upon the history of three successive kings , with the ...
... labours , or the regard of posterity . The Second Book will contain the chronological series of the Kings to the coming of the Normans . The three following Books will be employed upon the history of three successive kings , with the ...
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... labours . Ere long , the Scots advanced , as usual , secure , as they supposed , of a great booty with very little difficulty . However , the Angles assailed them , and scarcely had they engaged , before they were put to flight , whilst ...
... labours . Ere long , the Scots advanced , as usual , secure , as they supposed , of a great booty with very little difficulty . However , the Angles assailed them , and scarcely had they engaged , before they were put to flight , whilst ...
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