The Quarterly Review, Volume 171William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1890 - English literature |
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... England . The impulse given to education by the Carlovingian revival of learning , of which the literature of the times of Alfred is one of the evidences , and in which our countryman Alcuin bore no inconsiderable part , had been ...
... England . The impulse given to education by the Carlovingian revival of learning , of which the literature of the times of Alfred is one of the evidences , and in which our countryman Alcuin bore no inconsiderable part , had been ...
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... England was not behind the other nations of Christendom in this respect . ' England , ' says Milman , ' was almost a land of schools ; every cathedral , almost every monastery , had its own . ' > # The schools attached to the ...
... England was not behind the other nations of Christendom in this respect . ' England , ' says Milman , ' was almost a land of schools ; every cathedral , almost every monastery , had its own . ' > # The schools attached to the ...
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... admit that the age in which William of Wykeham was born was one in which letters had sunk to a * Roper , quoted by Furnivall , Education in Early England , ' 1867 . 6 low low ebb . It was the period which came between Eton College . 5.
... admit that the age in which William of Wykeham was born was one in which letters had sunk to a * Roper , quoted by Furnivall , Education in Early England , ' 1867 . 6 low low ebb . It was the period which came between Eton College . 5.
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... England off from Continental learning , and the sequestration of alien Priories may have operated in the same direction . It was also , it is true , the period of the rise of English undefiled , the age of Chaucer , Gower , and Langland ...
... England off from Continental learning , and the sequestration of alien Priories may have operated in the same direction . It was also , it is true , the period of the rise of English undefiled , the age of Chaucer , Gower , and Langland ...
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... England . His aim was more limited . Yet his foundation contained the germ of a greater growth , and the system which has grown out of it during the last 400 years is a true development . Attached to the ecclesiastical Seminary which ...
... England . His aim was more limited . Yet his foundation contained the germ of a greater growth , and the system which has grown out of it during the last 400 years is a true development . Attached to the ecclesiastical Seminary which ...
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