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... translation of the " Polychronicon " was made for Lord Berkeley , and was preceded by Trevisa's own Dialogue on Translation between a Lord and a Clerk ; that is to say , his patron and himself . Trevisa translated from Occam " A ...
... translation of the " Polychronicon " was made for Lord Berkeley , and was preceded by Trevisa's own Dialogue on Translation between a Lord and a Clerk ; that is to say , his patron and himself . Trevisa translated from Occam " A ...
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... translation of the Bible into English . At the close of 1534 the English clergy had carried in Convocation against a strong party headed by Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester , a petition to the king for a translation of the Scrip ...
... translation of the Bible into English . At the close of 1534 the English clergy had carried in Convocation against a strong party headed by Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester , a petition to the king for a translation of the Scrip ...
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... translate the Homeric Hymns , and " Battle of the Frogs and Mice , " ascribed to Homer . This translation appeared at the end of the reign of James I. , as The Crown of all Homer's Workes , Batrachomyomachia , his Hymns and Epigrams ...
... translate the Homeric Hymns , and " Battle of the Frogs and Mice , " ascribed to Homer . This translation appeared at the end of the reign of James I. , as The Crown of all Homer's Workes , Batrachomyomachia , his Hymns and Epigrams ...
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