The Contemporary Review, 30. köideA. Strahan, 1877 |
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... English peerage , or a book of English pedigrees of any kind , we are tempted to put Juvenal's question in another sense . " Stemmata quid faciunt ? " What are pedigrees worth ? when stage after stage , not in myth- ical but in recorded ...
... English peerage , or a book of English pedigrees of any kind , we are tempted to put Juvenal's question in another sense . " Stemmata quid faciunt ? " What are pedigrees worth ? when stage after stage , not in myth- ical but in recorded ...
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... English names , Totig . But no such near approach as this can be found in Shropshire . But Richard of Leighton is a perfectly possible man ; nay , there is every reason to think that he is a real man . He is a man who might perfectly ...
... English names , Totig . But no such near approach as this can be found in Shropshire . But Richard of Leighton is a perfectly possible man ; nay , there is every reason to think that he is a real man . He is a man who might perfectly ...
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... English history must be able to turn to , we can reform to some extent the mythical Leighton pedigree in Sir Bernard Burke's volume . We have got rid of Totilus , Titus , and the imaginary Richard , and we have found a real Richard ...
... English history must be able to turn to , we can reform to some extent the mythical Leighton pedigree in Sir Bernard Burke's volume . We have got rid of Totilus , Titus , and the imaginary Richard , and we have found a real Richard ...
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... English feeling , which thought it after all a finer thing to be an Englishman than to be a Frenchman . But , whatever the motive may have been , it is certain that , in the case of a good many families , an attempt has been made to ...
... English feeling , which thought it after all a finer thing to be an Englishman than to be a Frenchman . But , whatever the motive may have been , it is certain that , in the case of a good many families , an attempt has been made to ...
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... English- men recorded in Domesday , and even to prove that he now holds the lands which they held . Such a claim is in no way absurd in itself ; the story is perfectly possible ; we only ask for the proof . Show us the proof ; make out ...
... English- men recorded in Domesday , and even to prove that he now holds the lands which they held . Such a claim is in no way absurd in itself ; the story is perfectly possible ; we only ask for the proof . Show us the proof ; make out ...
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