The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Harper, 1851 - 576 pages |
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... Bishop of Winchester , Wulfstan , Archbishop of York , and some others of less note , bring down the list of Anglo - Saxon authors to the Conquest , giving to this period of English literature a duration of nearly five hundred years ...
... Bishop of Winchester , Wulfstan , Archbishop of York , and some others of less note , bring down the list of Anglo - Saxon authors to the Conquest , giving to this period of English literature a duration of nearly five hundred years ...
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... bishops was of vast Wickliffe resolved to oppose both ; and he had scarcely entered upon the course of opposition which he had determined to pursue , before he found many able associates and protectors ; for the doctrine which he ...
... bishops was of vast Wickliffe resolved to oppose both ; and he had scarcely entered upon the course of opposition which he had determined to pursue , before he found many able associates and protectors ; for the doctrine which he ...
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... Bishop of Aberdeen to act as his commissioner at Edinburgh , when the ransom of David the Second was there debated . His learning too was such that on several occasions he accompanied men of rank to study at Oxford . His death occurred ...
... Bishop of Aberdeen to act as his commissioner at Edinburgh , when the ransom of David the Second was there debated . His learning too was such that on several occasions he accompanied men of rank to study at Oxford . His death occurred ...
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... bishop soon , present in that place . Of Canterbury he then was righteous lord ; Again the king he made this richt record , And said , ' Myself shall hear his confession , If I have micht in contrar of thy crown , An thou through force ...
... bishop soon , present in that place . Of Canterbury he then was righteous lord ; Again the king he made this richt record , And said , ' Myself shall hear his confession , If I have micht in contrar of thy crown , An thou through force ...
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... bishop of Dunkeld , to which the rich Abbey of Aberbrothin was soon after added . The purity of his life and character , however , exposed him to the virulent persecutions of the times , and having retired to London he there soon after ...
... bishop of Dunkeld , to which the rich Abbey of Aberbrothin was soon after added . The purity of his life and character , however , exposed him to the virulent persecutions of the times , and having retired to London he there soon after ...
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