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... England down to his own times , and incidentally throws a flood of light upon the secular his- tory also . Among his other works may be named , De Ratione Temporum , a Martyrology , the Life of St. Cuthbert in prose and verse , a poem ...
... England down to his own times , and incidentally throws a flood of light upon the secular his- tory also . Among his other works may be named , De Ratione Temporum , a Martyrology , the Life of St. Cuthbert in prose and verse , a poem ...
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... England under the Danish dynasty , between the years 1010 and 1050 , by some one who was of Danish parentage , but a native of England . Yet why any one should take so much trouble to make a translation which would be unintelligible to ...
... England under the Danish dynasty , between the years 1010 and 1050 , by some one who was of Danish parentage , but a native of England . Yet why any one should take so much trouble to make a translation which would be unintelligible to ...
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... England ; thus , while the history of Alfred , on which the Laud MS . is almost silent , is minutely and lengthily told in the Benet , hundreds of notices of Northumbrian affairs which are found in the former are entirely omitted in the ...
... England ; thus , while the history of Alfred , on which the Laud MS . is almost silent , is minutely and lengthily told in the Benet , hundreds of notices of Northumbrian affairs which are found in the former are entirely omitted in the ...
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... England , tended to develop this weak side -this proneness to ease . In their old dwelling - place they were at least stimulated by the necessity of contending with the unfruitfulness of nature and the encroachments of the sea ; in ...
... England , tended to develop this weak side -this proneness to ease . In their old dwelling - place they were at least stimulated by the necessity of contending with the unfruitfulness of nature and the encroachments of the sea ; in ...
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... England during this which we call the Norman period ; and this is a fact which we must learn to see in its true light , in order to understand aright the rise of English literature in the fourteenth century . Again , the intel- lectual ...
... England during this which we call the Norman period ; and this is a fact which we must learn to see in its true light , in order to understand aright the rise of English literature in the fourteenth century . Again , the intel- lectual ...
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