Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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... king is , with all its inter- polations and errors , our best authority . The first thing they did together was Ælfred's Hand - book . When Asser quoted or Ælfred read out of the Bible or the Fathers any passage which interested the king ...
... king is , with all its inter- polations and errors , our best authority . The first thing they did together was Ælfred's Hand - book . When Asser quoted or Ælfred read out of the Bible or the Fathers any passage which interested the king ...
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... king adds , ' He had gone by the lands where the Engle dwelt before they came hither . ' Wulfstan , starting from Haithaby , the capital of the old Engle - land , went for seven days and nights along the German coast till he reached the ...
... king adds , ' He had gone by the lands where the Engle dwelt before they came hither . ' Wulfstan , starting from Haithaby , the capital of the old Engle - land , went for seven days and nights along the German coast till he reached the ...
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... king and his tools , wherewith to rule - That he have his land fully manned , that he have prayer - men , and army - men , and workmen . Indeed thou knowest that without these tools no king can show forth his craft . This also is his ...
... king and his tools , wherewith to rule - That he have his land fully manned , that he have prayer - men , and army - men , and workmen . Indeed thou knowest that without these tools no king can show forth his craft . This also is his ...
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... king . and at Kingston hallowed . and he gave his sister . . [ to Otho , son of the king of the old Saxons . ] An . DCCCCXXV . , & c . An . DCCCCXXXIV . This year King Ethelstan went into Scotland both with a land - army and with a ship ...
... king . and at Kingston hallowed . and he gave his sister . . [ to Otho , son of the king of the old Saxons . ] An . DCCCCXXV . , & c . An . DCCCCXXXIV . This year King Ethelstan went into Scotland both with a land - army and with a ship ...
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... King Ethelstan , and ends with an unfinished sentence . Then follow the figures merely for the years 900-933 , this particular MS . ( of the Abingdon Chronicle ) recording no facts under those years ; and after one entry for 934 , and ...
... King Ethelstan , and ends with an unfinished sentence . Then follow the figures merely for the years 900-933 , this particular MS . ( of the Abingdon Chronicle ) recording no facts under those years ; and after one entry for 934 , and ...
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