The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Harper, 1851 - 576 pages |
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... Speaking .. Humility .... Free Inquiry . JAMES USHER Letter to a Jesuit .... JOHN HALES ..... Private Judgment in Religion . OWEN FELTHAM .. Limitation of Human Knowledge . Of Neglect ...... Meditation . LECTURE THE TWENTIETH . PAGE 431 ...
... Speaking .. Humility .... Free Inquiry . JAMES USHER Letter to a Jesuit .... JOHN HALES ..... Private Judgment in Religion . OWEN FELTHAM .. Limitation of Human Knowledge . Of Neglect ...... Meditation . LECTURE THE TWENTIETH . PAGE 431 ...
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... speak of these writers more particularly , we can not forbear to pause for a moment on the Celtic age , and briefly notice Os- sian , its brightest , and perhaps its only ornament . Without concerning our- selves with those perplexing ...
... speak of these writers more particularly , we can not forbear to pause for a moment on the Celtic age , and briefly notice Os- sian , its brightest , and perhaps its only ornament . Without concerning our- selves with those perplexing ...
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... speaking abounded with Metrical Romances , of which the ' Life of Alexander the Great , ' ' Sir Guy , ' ' King Robert of Sicily , ' and ' The Death of Arthur , ' were the principal ; but these we can not farther notice . Another class ...
... speaking abounded with Metrical Romances , of which the ' Life of Alexander the Great , ' ' Sir Guy , ' ' King Robert of Sicily , ' and ' The Death of Arthur , ' were the principal ; but these we can not farther notice . Another class ...
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... speaking , have thus brought us down to Roger Bacon , a man of genius so extraordinary , that he would have splendidly adorned any age or country . ROGER BACON was descended from an ancient and honorable family , and was born at ...
... speaking , have thus brought us down to Roger Bacon , a man of genius so extraordinary , that he would have splendidly adorned any age or country . ROGER BACON was descended from an ancient and honorable family , and was born at ...
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... speak to me in counsel . And there he asked me how the Christian men governed ' em in our country . And I said [ to ] him , ' Right well , thonked be God . ' ' And he said [ to ] me , ' Truly nay , for ye Christian men ne reckon right ...
... speak to me in counsel . And there he asked me how the Christian men governed ' em in our country . And I said [ to ] him , ' Right well , thonked be God . ' ' And he said [ to ] me , ' Truly nay , for ye Christian men ne reckon right ...
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