A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... way to fame : these are surely things of no slight interest and value to the earnest student of English Literature . to such this book is offered . And October 5 , 1851 . W. F. C. CONTENTS . THE PRE - ENGLISH ERA . Chap .
... way to fame : these are surely things of no slight interest and value to the earnest student of English Literature . to such this book is offered . And October 5 , 1851 . W. F. C. CONTENTS . THE PRE - ENGLISH ERA . Chap .
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... thing in the Cornhill to the drawings of Millais and of Doyle ? The various gradations by which the first rude sketch changed into that wonderful invention - a word formed of alphabetic symbols cannot here be traced . Take two specimens ...
... thing in the Cornhill to the drawings of Millais and of Doyle ? The various gradations by which the first rude sketch changed into that wonderful invention - a word formed of alphabetic symbols cannot here be traced . Take two specimens ...
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... things . The Phoenicians , who had much to do with early Egypt , in adopting the art of writing probably abandoned the pictorial part of the hieroglyphic system , and retaining only the phonetics , formed out of these the first pure ...
... things . The Phoenicians , who had much to do with early Egypt , in adopting the art of writing probably abandoned the pictorial part of the hieroglyphic system , and retaining only the phonetics , formed out of these the first pure ...
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... thing of which his countrymen were especially proud - was the fact that he , a Briton , had been chosen to give instruction to the great Emperor of the West . ERIGENA . - John Scotus or Erigena , although not a Saxon , but , as his name ...
... thing of which his countrymen were especially proud - was the fact that he , a Briton , had been chosen to give instruction to the great Emperor of the West . ERIGENA . - John Scotus or Erigena , although not a Saxon , but , as his name ...
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... things : he was a learned layman , and a well - read Greek scholar , both characters being very rare in those benighted days . His chief works are a treatise on Predestination , in which he argues that God has fore - ordained only ...
... things : he was a learned layman , and a well - read Greek scholar , both characters being very rare in those benighted days . His chief works are a treatise on Predestination , in which he argues that God has fore - ordained only ...
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