Sketch of English Literature with the Lives and Works of the Chief Authors |
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... brought up , from the age of seven in a religious house , first at Wearmouth , then at Jarrow - on - Tyne . He was ordained priest at the age of thirty , and from Bede , died 735 . thenceforth gave up his time to teaching in the schools ...
... brought up , from the age of seven in a religious house , first at Wearmouth , then at Jarrow - on - Tyne . He was ordained priest at the age of thirty , and from Bede , died 735 . thenceforth gave up his time to teaching in the schools ...
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... brought home from the East some knowledge of the new ideas . Constantinople had long been the home of a great number of learned Greeks and Jews ; the advance of the Turks drove them gradually westward , and the taking of Constantinople ...
... brought home from the East some knowledge of the new ideas . Constantinople had long been the home of a great number of learned Greeks and Jews ; the advance of the Turks drove them gradually westward , and the taking of Constantinople ...
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S. M. Du Pré. points brought out in this earliest of our English treatises on education— “ truth of religion ... brought by the laity of the greed , ignorance , and tyranny of their clergy . He suggests remedies for these evils ...
S. M. Du Pré. points brought out in this earliest of our English treatises on education— “ truth of religion ... brought by the laity of the greed , ignorance , and tyranny of their clergy . He suggests remedies for these evils ...
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