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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... 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 obscured by a cloud of ...
... 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 obscured by a cloud of ...
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... given to the poorest children to become clerks for the service of the Church . Besides these schools , Bishops and Abbots took into their own households boys of good family to serve as pages , and supported a schoolmaster to teach them ...
... given to the poorest children to become clerks for the service of the Church . Besides these schools , Bishops and Abbots took into their own households boys of good family to serve as pages , and supported a schoolmaster to teach them ...
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... given by his position as Bishop of Winchester , which made him choose that city as the site of his new Foundation . The Oxford Foundation has nothing novel in it ; Wykeham was but following in the fashion ; so far , that is , as it can ...
... given by his position as Bishop of Winchester , which made him choose that city as the site of his new Foundation . The Oxford Foundation has nothing novel in it ; Wykeham was but following in the fashion ; so far , that is , as it can ...
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... given . The Bull of Eugenius IV . confirming the foundation bears date January 1441 . The funds for the endowment of Eton as well as King's were derived_almost entirely from the suppression of alien priories , or English cells of ...
... given . The Bull of Eugenius IV . confirming the foundation bears date January 1441 . The funds for the endowment of Eton as well as King's were derived_almost entirely from the suppression of alien priories , or English cells of ...
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... given to the College of St. George , and the progress of the buildings was hindered for several years . The late Dean Wellesley made a good point in an after- dinner speech in the hall at Eton some years ago , saying that ' he little ...
... given to the College of St. George , and the progress of the buildings was hindered for several years . The late Dean Wellesley made a good point in an after- dinner speech in the hall at Eton some years ago , saying that ' he little ...
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