Six Old English Chronicles: Of which Two are Now First Translated from the Monkish Latin OriginalsJohn Allen Giles, Gildas G. Bell & sons, 1900 - 512 pages |
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... reign of Richard the First , whose virulent invec- tive against it , we are told , proceeded from a revenge he thought he owed the Welsh for an affront they had given him ; that his opposition was far from shaking the credit of it with ...
... reign of Richard the First , whose virulent invec- tive against it , we are told , proceeded from a revenge he thought he owed the Welsh for an affront they had given him ; that his opposition was far from shaking the credit of it with ...
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... reign of Richard I , it met with no opponents even down to the seventeenth century , but was , on the contrary , quoted by all , in particular by Edward I , in a controversy before Boniface the Eighth . 3. That we see in this history ...
... reign of Richard I , it met with no opponents even down to the seventeenth century , but was , on the contrary , quoted by all , in particular by Edward I , in a controversy before Boniface the Eighth . 3. That we see in this history ...
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... reign of Henry I , and of whom Henry of Huntingdon , and other historians as well as Geoffrey himself , make honourable mention , being a man very curious in the study of antiquity , and a diligent searcher into ancient libraries , and ...
... reign of Henry I , and of whom Henry of Huntingdon , and other historians as well as Geoffrey himself , make honourable mention , being a man very curious in the study of antiquity , and a diligent searcher into ancient libraries , and ...
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... reigns of Brutus and Leil , is an interval of 156 years ; and yet Geoffrey makes the capture of the ark contemporaneous with the reign of Brutus , and the building of Solomon's temple with that of Leil . Now the interval between these ...
... reigns of Brutus and Leil , is an interval of 156 years ; and yet Geoffrey makes the capture of the ark contemporaneous with the reign of Brutus , and the building of Solomon's temple with that of Leil . Now the interval between these ...
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... reigns in Judæa , Eurystheus in Lace- { dæmon . II . 7 , 8 ) King David - Sylvius Latinus - Gad - Na- than and Asaph . 7. Brutus II . , 12 yrs . and 19 other sons and 30 daughters , II . 8 . 8. Leil 25 yrs . { Solomon - Queen of Sheba ...
... reigns in Judæa , Eurystheus in Lace- { dæmon . II . 7 , 8 ) King David - Sylvius Latinus - Gad - Na- than and Asaph . 7. Brutus II . , 12 yrs . and 19 other sons and 30 daughters , II . 8 . 8. Leil 25 yrs . { Solomon - Queen of Sheba ...
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