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... Ancient Cookery , London , 1780 , 1 vol . 8vo . Cynewulf's Crist , Text in Grein's Bibliothek , B. I. Dante , Il Convito di Dante Alighieri e le Epistole , con illustrazioni e note di Pietro Fraticelli , Firenze , 1857 , 1 vol . 12mo ...
... Ancient Cookery , London , 1780 , 1 vol . 8vo . Cynewulf's Crist , Text in Grein's Bibliothek , B. I. Dante , Il Convito di Dante Alighieri e le Epistole , con illustrazioni e note di Pietro Fraticelli , Firenze , 1857 , 1 vol . 12mo ...
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... ancient Manuscripts , by T. Wright and J. O. Halliwell , London , 1841 , 2 vols . 8vo . Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores , or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages , now publishing in 8vo ...
... ancient Manuscripts , by T. Wright and J. O. Halliwell , London , 1841 , 2 vols . 8vo . Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores , or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages , now publishing in 8vo ...
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... ancient or foreign nations , while the language , stimulated to a continually renewed evolu- tion of organic action by the necessities of a regenerated literary , political , social , and commercial life , was gradually expanding into a ...
... ancient or foreign nations , while the language , stimulated to a continually renewed evolu- tion of organic action by the necessities of a regenerated literary , political , social , and commercial life , was gradually expanding into a ...
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... ancient mistress and capital of the world . But though England shared with the Continent in the baneful influence of this spiritual and semi - political despotism , yet it was only at comparatively rare intervals that it was felt and ...
... ancient mistress and capital of the world . But though England shared with the Continent in the baneful influence of this spiritual and semi - political despotism , yet it was only at comparatively rare intervals that it was felt and ...
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... ancient authors ; but whether the exist- ence of the whole body of Greek and Roman literature , down to the present day , would have been an advantage to modern genius , is quite another question . I have heard one of the most ...
... ancient authors ; but whether the exist- ence of the whole body of Greek and Roman literature , down to the present day , would have been an advantage to modern genius , is quite another question . I have heard one of the most ...
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