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... Scholar and Churchman made the patronage of learning an act of piety , and while there was yet a mystery about learning which gave it , in the opinion of mankind , a preternatural virtue . It was then that the affluent endeavoured to ...
... Scholar and Churchman made the patronage of learning an act of piety , and while there was yet a mystery about learning which gave it , in the opinion of mankind , a preternatural virtue . It was then that the affluent endeavoured to ...
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... scholars , gave them the stimulus and capability of great performances . They became ardent and indefatigable , because the path of glory was opened to their exertions , and achieved what it is the astonishment of later days could have ...
... scholars , gave them the stimulus and capability of great performances . They became ardent and indefatigable , because the path of glory was opened to their exertions , and achieved what it is the astonishment of later days could have ...
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... scholars then observed the altered character of the times , and modelled their institutions to the gradual but certain revolution which the world was silently and grandly undergoing , their dominion would have been confirmed , and the ...
... scholars then observed the altered character of the times , and modelled their institutions to the gradual but certain revolution which the world was silently and grandly undergoing , their dominion would have been confirmed , and the ...
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... scholars , divines , and philosophers , as any that have the advantage of the most ancient fame and munificent protection . any , The great duties of an historian are selection of authentic materials and fidelity in narration . As to ...
... scholars , divines , and philosophers , as any that have the advantage of the most ancient fame and munificent protection . any , The great duties of an historian are selection of authentic materials and fidelity in narration . As to ...
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... Scholars in Dublin ; " but the prema- ture death of the archbishop prevented the plan from being carried into execution . In the year 1320 , how- ever , Alexander De Bicknor did actually found an university in St. Patrick's Cathedral ...
... Scholars in Dublin ; " but the prema- ture death of the archbishop prevented the plan from being carried into execution . In the year 1320 , how- ever , Alexander De Bicknor did actually found an university in St. Patrick's Cathedral ...
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