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... subject of study among their scholars . In fact , if I may trust my own ex- perience , a large proportion of boys and girls turn from it as " hard , " " dry , " and " uninteresting . " I cannot say that the complaint is a groundless one ...
... subject of study among their scholars . In fact , if I may trust my own ex- perience , a large proportion of boys and girls turn from it as " hard , " " dry , " and " uninteresting . " I cannot say that the complaint is a groundless one ...
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... subjects of Honorius contemplated their new freedom with surprise and terror ; they were left destitute of any civil or military constitution ; and their uncertain rulers wanted either skill , or courage , or authority to direct the ...
... subjects of Honorius contemplated their new freedom with surprise and terror ; they were left destitute of any civil or military constitution ; and their uncertain rulers wanted either skill , or courage , or authority to direct the ...
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... subjects of the poem were taken from the Bible ; in fact Cadmon para- phrased the history of the Old and New Testament . He sang the creation of the world , the history of Israel , the book of Daniel , the whole story of the life of ...
... subjects of the poem were taken from the Bible ; in fact Cadmon para- phrased the history of the Old and New Testament . He sang the creation of the world , the history of Israel , the book of Daniel , the whole story of the life of ...
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... subjects ; and in their company he occasionally issued from his concealment , intercepted the straggling parties of the Danes , and returned , loaded with the spoils , often of the enemy , sometimes ( such was his hard necessity ) of ...
... subjects ; and in their company he occasionally issued from his concealment , intercepted the straggling parties of the Danes , and returned , loaded with the spoils , often of the enemy , sometimes ( such was his hard necessity ) of ...
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... subjects with a geographical account of the natives of Germany ; and the voyages of Other towards the North Pole , and of Wolfstan in the Baltic , were detailed as these travellers related them to the king . The history of Bæda , which ...
... subjects with a geographical account of the natives of Germany ; and the voyages of Other towards the North Pole , and of Wolfstan in the Baltic , were detailed as these travellers related them to the king . The history of Bæda , which ...
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