Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present DayLippincott, 1894 - 555 pages |
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... born will be a private benefit to some , in causing them to forget such as no longer are , and will be a double benefit to their country , in preventing its desolation , and providing for its security . For those persons cannot in ...
... born will be a private benefit to some , in causing them to forget such as no longer are , and will be a double benefit to their country , in preventing its desolation , and providing for its security . For those persons cannot in ...
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... born at Bury St. Edmunds , 1287 , became Bishop of Durham 1333 , and died 1345 . " Richard de Bury , otherwise called Richard Aungervylle , is said to have alone possessed more books than all the bishops of England together . Besides ...
... born at Bury St. Edmunds , 1287 , became Bishop of Durham 1333 , and died 1345 . " Richard de Bury , otherwise called Richard Aungervylle , is said to have alone possessed more books than all the bishops of England together . Besides ...
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... born in Kent about 1412 , and died in 1492 . " Exclusively of the labours attached to the working of his press as a new art , our typographer contrived , though well stricken in years , to trans- late not fewer than five thousand ...
... born in Kent about 1412 , and died in 1492 . " Exclusively of the labours attached to the working of his press as a new art , our typographer contrived , though well stricken in years , to trans- late not fewer than five thousand ...
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... born 1480 , executed under Henry VIII . , 1535. His works were published in Latin , Lovanii , 1565 et 1566 , fol .; in English , Lond . , 1557 , fol .; best Latin edit . , Francf . , 1689 , fol . " The indictment was then read by the ...
... born 1480 , executed under Henry VIII . , 1535. His works were published in Latin , Lovanii , 1565 et 1566 , fol .; in English , Lond . , 1557 , fol .; best Latin edit . , Francf . , 1689 , fol . " The indictment was then read by the ...
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... born , for whom thus graciously God hath provided , having grace of God , and strength of the Holy Ghost , to stand stead- fastly in the height of the storm . Happy is he that ever he was born whom God , his heavenly Father , hath ...
... born , for whom thus graciously God hath provided , having grace of God , and strength of the Holy Ghost , to stand stead- fastly in the height of the storm . Happy is he that ever he was born whom God , his heavenly Father , hath ...
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