Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... Learning and Wisdom , 284 To Dr Francis Mansell , 255 Oracles , 284 To Sir William St John , Knight , 256 Dreams and Prophecies , 234 To Captain Thomas B. , 257 Sermons , 284 To the Right Hon . the Lord Cliffe , 258 Libels , 284 Tales ...
... Learning and Wisdom , 284 To Dr Francis Mansell , 255 Oracles , 284 To Sir William St John , Knight , 256 Dreams and Prophecies , 234 To Captain Thomas B. , 257 Sermons , 284 To the Right Hon . the Lord Cliffe , 258 Libels , 284 Tales ...
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... Learning , 646 LORD BOLINGBROKE , 646 National Partiality and Prejudice , HISTORICAL , CRITICAL , AND THEOLOGICAL 647 WRITERS . Absurdity of Useless Learning , 648 Unreasonableness of Complaints of the Shortness of LAWRENCE ECHARD , 659 ...
... Learning , 646 LORD BOLINGBROKE , 646 National Partiality and Prejudice , HISTORICAL , CRITICAL , AND THEOLOGICAL 647 WRITERS . Absurdity of Useless Learning , 648 Unreasonableness of Complaints of the Shortness of LAWRENCE ECHARD , 659 ...
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... learning de- scended into the upper classes of lay society . This * It is now believed that the British language was not so immediately or entirely extinguished by the Saxons as was generally stated by our historians down to the last ...
... learning de- scended into the upper classes of lay society . This * It is now believed that the British language was not so immediately or entirely extinguished by the Saxons as was generally stated by our historians down to the last ...
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... learning and authorship graced the royal state , without in- terfering with its proper duties . He translated the historical works of Orosius and Bede , and some reli- gious and moral treatises , perhaps also Æsop's Fables and the ...
... learning and authorship graced the royal state , without in- terfering with its proper duties . He translated the historical works of Orosius and Bede , and some reli- gious and moral treatises , perhaps also Æsop's Fables and the ...
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... learning , the clerk's coat was thread- bare , and his horse was ' lean as is a rake . ' Among the other dramatis persone are , a doctor of physic , a great astronomer and student , whose study was but little on the Bible ; a purse ...
... learning , the clerk's coat was thread- bare , and his horse was ' lean as is a rake . ' Among the other dramatis persone are , a doctor of physic , a great astronomer and student , whose study was but little on the Bible ; a purse ...
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