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... SCOTLAND . 6. Retrospect - Michael Scot - Thomas the Rhymer . - 7 . The Fourteenth Century - John of Fordun - Wyntoun's Chronicle- The Bruce of John Barbour - Its Literary Merit - Its Language . - 8 . The Fifteenth Century - The King's ...
... SCOTLAND . 6. Retrospect - Michael Scot - Thomas the Rhymer . - 7 . The Fourteenth Century - John of Fordun - Wyntoun's Chronicle- The Bruce of John Barbour - Its Literary Merit - Its Language . - 8 . The Fifteenth Century - The King's ...
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... SCOTLAND . - 12 . A Gothic Dialect in North - Eastern Coun- ties - An Anglo - Saxor Dialect in Southern Counties - Changes as in England . - 13 . The Scottish Tongue in the Fourteenth Century - Extract from Barbour's Bruce.- 14. Great ...
... SCOTLAND . - 12 . A Gothic Dialect in North - Eastern Coun- ties - An Anglo - Saxor Dialect in Southern Counties - Changes as in England . - 13 . The Scottish Tongue in the Fourteenth Century - Extract from Barbour's Bruce.- 14. Great ...
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... SCOTLAND . MISCELLANEOUS PROSE IN ENGLAND . 1. Secondary Importance of the Works - Sir Thomas More - His Style - His Historical Writings - His Tracts and Letters . - 2 . Roger Ascham - His Style - His Toxophilus - His Schoolmaster ...
... SCOTLAND . MISCELLANEOUS PROSE IN ENGLAND . 1. Secondary Importance of the Works - Sir Thomas More - His Style - His Historical Writings - His Tracts and Letters . - 2 . Roger Ascham - His Style - His Toxophilus - His Schoolmaster ...
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... Scotland - The First Edinburgh Review - Mackenzie's Novels -Other Novelists . - 4 . Criticism - Percy's Reliques - Warton's History - Parliamen- tary Eloquence - Edmund Burke - Letters . - 5 . Philosophy- ( 1 . ) Theory of Litera- ture ...
... Scotland - The First Edinburgh Review - Mackenzie's Novels -Other Novelists . - 4 . Criticism - Percy's Reliques - Warton's History - Parliamen- tary Eloquence - Edmund Burke - Letters . - 5 . Philosophy- ( 1 . ) Theory of Litera- ture ...
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... Scotland . None of these were the true founders of the English nation : but the state of the English Celts under the Romans affected in no small degree the events which next followed . Secondly , then , Rome introduced into our island ...
... Scotland . None of these were the true founders of the English nation : but the state of the English Celts under the Romans affected in no small degree the events which next followed . Secondly , then , Rome introduced into our island ...
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