Old English Chronicles: Including Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius, Together with the Spurious Chronicle of Richard of CirencesterJohn Allen Giles G. Bell, 1901 - 512 pages |
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... British affairs , than any critics of the present age can pretend to ; that it had no adversary before William of Newburgh about the end of the reign of Richard the First , whose virulent invec- tive against it , we are told , proceeded ...
... British affairs , than any critics of the present age can pretend to ; that it had no adversary before William of Newburgh about the end of the reign of Richard the First , whose virulent invec- tive against it , we are told , proceeded ...
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... British tongue , and carrying marks of great antiquity . And being overjoyed at it , as if he had found a vast treasure , he in a short time after came over to England ; where inquiring for a proper person to translate this curious but ...
... British tongue , and carrying marks of great antiquity . And being overjoyed at it , as if he had found a vast treasure , he in a short time after came over to England ; where inquiring for a proper person to translate this curious but ...
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... British affairs , written above a hundred years ago by Mr. John Lewis , and shortly to be published , wherein the author says , that he had the original of the British History in parchment written in the British tongue before Geoffrey's ...
... British affairs , written above a hundred years ago by Mr. John Lewis , and shortly to be published , wherein the author says , that he had the original of the British History in parchment written in the British tongue before Geoffrey's ...
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... British language , but whether any manuscript copy of this original now exists , is a point which has not been satisfac- torily ascertained . In 1811 , the Rev. Peter Roberts pub- lished the Chronicle of the Kings of Britain ...
... British language , but whether any manuscript copy of this original now exists , is a point which has not been satisfac- torily ascertained . In 1811 , the Rev. Peter Roberts pub- lished the Chronicle of the Kings of Britain ...
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... British hostage , and he had received severe wounds . When , therefore , the day dawned , it became known to the soldiers , who had remained behind the king's back , they assembled together and set forth , and with them Osric the duke ...
... British hostage , and he had received severe wounds . When , therefore , the day dawned , it became known to the soldiers , who had remained behind the king's back , they assembled together and set forth , and with them Osric the duke ...
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