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... admirable doctor . If the improvements of modern times have di- minished the value of his writings , this circumstance ought no more to detract from his merit than it does from that of the philosophers of Greece and Rome . Beda was a ...
... admirable doctor . If the improvements of modern times have di- minished the value of his writings , this circumstance ought no more to detract from his merit than it does from that of the philosophers of Greece and Rome . Beda was a ...
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... admirable genius and erudition of Lanfranc , one ought to be an Herodian in grammar , an Aristotle in dialectics , a Tully in rhetoric , an Augustine and Jerome , and other expos- itors of the law and grace , in the sacred scriptures ...
... admirable genius and erudition of Lanfranc , one ought to be an Herodian in grammar , an Aristotle in dialectics , a Tully in rhetoric , an Augustine and Jerome , and other expos- itors of the law and grace , in the sacred scriptures ...
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... admirable , and the marvels related appealed so strongly to the imagination , that the world for ages after seems to have been at a loss what to make of it . It was not easy , even at the first , for a man of any judgment to be a ...
... admirable , and the marvels related appealed so strongly to the imagination , that the world for ages after seems to have been at a loss what to make of it . It was not easy , even at the first , for a man of any judgment to be a ...
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... admirable skill ; his numbers seem almost to reel beneath his merriment and sarcasm . - GUEST , EDWIN , 1838 , A History of English Rhythms , vol . II , p . 422 . He was evidently a man , not only of much learning and extensive reading ...
... admirable skill ; his numbers seem almost to reel beneath his merriment and sarcasm . - GUEST , EDWIN , 1838 , A History of English Rhythms , vol . II , p . 422 . He was evidently a man , not only of much learning and extensive reading ...
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... admirably com- piled from authentic documents , and faith- fully reporting their contents . -BERING- TON , JOSEPH , 1814 , Literary History of the Middle Ages , p . 388 . Matthew Paris , however in some re- spects not an absolutely ...
... admirably com- piled from authentic documents , and faith- fully reporting their contents . -BERING- TON , JOSEPH , 1814 , Literary History of the Middle Ages , p . 388 . Matthew Paris , however in some re- spects not an absolutely ...
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