Sketch of English Literature with the Lives and Works of the Chief Authors |
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... chiefly directed against those put forward by William Tyndale , and two of the most famous of the pamphlets are : The Dialogue concerning Heresies , written in 1528 , and the Confutacion of Tyndale's Answer , in 1532 . William Tyndale ...
... chiefly directed against those put forward by William Tyndale , and two of the most famous of the pamphlets are : The Dialogue concerning Heresies , written in 1528 , and the Confutacion of Tyndale's Answer , in 1532 . William Tyndale ...
Page 84
... chiefly through translations , but it was an appreciative and intelligent knowledge . With the old chronicles , ballads , romances , and legends of his own country he was most familiar , and he shows intimate know- ledge of the language ...
... chiefly through translations , but it was an appreciative and intelligent knowledge . With the old chronicles , ballads , romances , and legends of his own country he was most familiar , and he shows intimate know- ledge of the language ...
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... chiefly guesswork , and quite unreliable ; but what he did succeed in is giving a comprehensive , generally accurate , and always ingenious definition of a word , and adding passages in illustration of the sense in which the word may be ...
... chiefly guesswork , and quite unreliable ; but what he did succeed in is giving a comprehensive , generally accurate , and always ingenious definition of a word , and adding passages in illustration of the sense in which the word may be ...
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