Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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... English text - book of natural science ; but the greatest of his works was his Ecclesiastical History of the English People , which was in reality the first History of England . This great writer was followed by Aldhelm , who wrote ...
... English text - book of natural science ; but the greatest of his works was his Ecclesiastical History of the English People , which was in reality the first History of England . This great writer was followed by Aldhelm , who wrote ...
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... English prose what Chaucer had done for English poetry , and students would do well to read some of his sober , stately writing , which is the precursor of the wonderful grandeur of sound and rhythm to all of us in the English Bible ...
... English prose what Chaucer had done for English poetry , and students would do well to read some of his sober , stately writing , which is the precursor of the wonderful grandeur of sound and rhythm to all of us in the English Bible ...
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... English literature , find themselves at its very source in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer . Classic If we draw a line of division between Anglo- The English Saxon and the English language , Chaucer is the father of English poetry , for ...
... English literature , find themselves at its very source in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer . Classic If we draw a line of division between Anglo- The English Saxon and the English language , Chaucer is the father of English poetry , for ...
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