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... origin , contended for supremacy , as was the case with Rome and Alba Longa , or , more frequently , one has been thrown into the shade by the other , after having for ages main- tained an undisputed ascendancy . Toledo existed long ...
... origin , contended for supremacy , as was the case with Rome and Alba Longa , or , more frequently , one has been thrown into the shade by the other , after having for ages main- tained an undisputed ascendancy . Toledo existed long ...
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... origin to St. Thomas of Canterbury , for not only is the vast edifice filled with the monuments of his successors , both in Catholic and Protestant times , but there are two memo- rable graves here , within which rest the remains of a ...
... origin to St. Thomas of Canterbury , for not only is the vast edifice filled with the monuments of his successors , both in Catholic and Protestant times , but there are two memo- rable graves here , within which rest the remains of a ...
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... origin , like that of similar devices of the middle ages , is very obscure , it may pro- bably be referred to the family of his mother , Philippa of Hainault , and its connexion with Germany . The motto " Ich diene , " as far as we can ...
... origin , like that of similar devices of the middle ages , is very obscure , it may pro- bably be referred to the family of his mother , Philippa of Hainault , and its connexion with Germany . The motto " Ich diene , " as far as we can ...
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... origin , and its richest fruits were ripening in the far north within Bede's silent cell at Yarrow , there were many other institutions in Britain in which the Benedictines con- tinued to devote themselves with especial pleasure , as ...
... origin , and its richest fruits were ripening in the far north within Bede's silent cell at Yarrow , there were many other institutions in Britain in which the Benedictines con- tinued to devote themselves with especial pleasure , as ...
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... origin , some of them being Italians , others Frenchmen , and others again Englishmen , they were nevertheless equal in all other respects ; for not one of them owned any other worldly property than the thick russet hood and serge frock ...
... origin , some of them being Italians , others Frenchmen , and others again Englishmen , they were nevertheless equal in all other respects ; for not one of them owned any other worldly property than the thick russet hood and serge frock ...
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