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 1 |
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... Scotland their laws and usages ; and to make Scottish civilisation what it has been . The monarchy identified itself with its new Anglian subjects , and became gradually alienated from the original Celtic polity . To speak of the ...
... Scotland their laws and usages ; and to make Scottish civilisation what it has been . The monarchy identified itself with its new Anglian subjects , and became gradually alienated from the original Celtic polity . To speak of the ...
Page 168
... Scotland produced little of note ; and erelong it borrowed its Puritan theology largely from England , whence it had taken its Bible , its Confession of Faith , its Catechism , and its Psalm - book . On the whole it is more remarkable ...
... Scotland produced little of note ; and erelong it borrowed its Puritan theology largely from England , whence it had taken its Bible , its Confession of Faith , its Catechism , and its Psalm - book . On the whole it is more remarkable ...
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... Scotland ; but both Columba and Adamnan were Irish - born Scots . There seems little doubt that Bede's ' incuneningum ' was Cun- ningham or North Ayrshire . Though this district was within the British kingdom of Strathclyde , that ...
... Scotland ; but both Columba and Adamnan were Irish - born Scots . There seems little doubt that Bede's ' incuneningum ' was Cun- ningham or North Ayrshire . Though this district was within the British kingdom of Strathclyde , that ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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