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... character , still less of the wealth , of old English literature ; but I shall endeavour to illustrate them by such biographical or historical notices as may serve to show their connection with the social and intellectual life of the ...
... character , still less of the wealth , of old English literature ; but I shall endeavour to illustrate them by such biographical or historical notices as may serve to show their connection with the social and intellectual life of the ...
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... character of old English literature is due , in a considerable degree , to the political condition of the English government . The insular position of England made that kingdom , from the beginning , more than any other Euro- pean state ...
... character of old English literature is due , in a considerable degree , to the political condition of the English government . The insular position of England made that kingdom , from the beginning , more than any other Euro- pean state ...
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... character , brought it to bear on all their interests , spi- ritual and temporal , and thus invested it with a reality and straightforward naturalness of thought and expression not often met with in the contemporaneous writings of ...
... character , brought it to bear on all their interests , spi- ritual and temporal , and thus invested it with a reality and straightforward naturalness of thought and expression not often met with in the contemporaneous writings of ...
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... character , the individualising of his personages - had far outstripped whatever else the imaginative literature of Christendom had produced . In these studies , the progress of our investigations is often arrested by the want of ...
... character , the individualising of his personages - had far outstripped whatever else the imaginative literature of Christendom had produced . In these studies , the progress of our investigations is often arrested by the want of ...
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... character to be able to determine in what degree of relationship they stand to the national folk - lore of later ages . Several of the yet extant minor poems of the Anglo - Saxons possess much excellence ; and the lays which Alfred ...
... character to be able to determine in what degree of relationship they stand to the national folk - lore of later ages . Several of the yet extant minor poems of the Anglo - Saxons possess much excellence ; and the lays which Alfred ...
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Page 1 - Origin and History of the English Language, and of the early literature it embodies. By the Hon. George P. Marsh. US Minister at Turin, Author of " Lectures on the English Language.
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Page 273 - Ermonye c the litylle and the grete; thorghe Lybye, Caldee and a gret partie of Ethiope; thorghe Amazoyne, Inde the lasse and the more, a gret partie; and thorghe out many othere lies, that ben abouten Inde; where dwellen many dyverse Folkes, and of dyverse Maneres and Lawes, and of dyverse Schappes of Men.
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Page 561 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a Law.