Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...J. Bumpus, 1813 - Authors, English |
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... Letters 142 Caxton 160 The Chronicles of England 173 The Description of England 204 The Fruit of Times 209 ROMANCE REVIVAL OF LETTERS Froissart Fischer ( Bishop of Rochester ) The Golden Legend The Book of the Order of Chivalry or ...
... Letters 142 Caxton 160 The Chronicles of England 173 The Description of England 204 The Fruit of Times 209 ROMANCE REVIVAL OF LETTERS Froissart Fischer ( Bishop of Rochester ) The Golden Legend The Book of the Order of Chivalry or ...
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... letters of the several chapters that begin it , you read - Pra- sentem Chronicam frater compilavit Ranulphus Monachus Cestrensis ; " a species of whim com- mon with the historians of those times . Still , it should be observed , that ...
... letters of the several chapters that begin it , you read - Pra- sentem Chronicam frater compilavit Ranulphus Monachus Cestrensis ; " a species of whim com- mon with the historians of those times . Still , it should be observed , that ...
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... letters patent were obtained from the king , addressed to the university of Oxford , requiring them within seven days from the re- ceipt of this order , to banish him and his ad- herents from the university , and to suppress all books ...
... letters patent were obtained from the king , addressed to the university of Oxford , requiring them within seven days from the re- ceipt of this order , to banish him and his ad- herents from the university , and to suppress all books ...
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... letter to people of his diocese , and therein would remember hem , exhort hem , and stir hem , and bid ' hem , or counsel hem , for to keep cer- tain moral virtues , & c . The conclusion of his fifth argument is cu- 1 judgment ...
... letter to people of his diocese , and therein would remember hem , exhort hem , and stir hem , and bid ' hem , or counsel hem , for to keep cer- tain moral virtues , & c . The conclusion of his fifth argument is cu- 1 judgment ...
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... , interest- ing to the antiquarian . There can be no doubt , therefore , that several of his MSS . which are still extant , may be printed with advantage , FENN'S LETTERS . THESE original letters , ( as we FORTESCUE . 141.
... , interest- ing to the antiquarian . There can be no doubt , therefore , that several of his MSS . which are still extant , may be printed with advantage , FENN'S LETTERS . THESE original letters , ( as we FORTESCUE . 141.
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Page 456 - ... that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours. And some alms he gave to the poor, and all this did he of the said farm.
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