Biographia Britannica Literaria, Or, Biography of Literary Characters of Great Britain and Ireland, Arranged in Chronological Order: Anglo-Norman period |
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... copy in the British Museum ( MS . Cotton . Nero C. vi . ) , will furnish an example of Anglo - Norman prose probably of the reign of Henry I. Beonuré barun chi ne alat el cun- seil des feluns , et en la veie des pec- heurs ne stout , et ...
... copy in the British Museum ( MS . Cotton . Nero C. vi . ) , will furnish an example of Anglo - Norman prose probably of the reign of Henry I. Beonuré barun chi ne alat el cun- seil des feluns , et en la veie des pec- heurs ne stout , et ...
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... copy . This is the reason that different manuscripts of the earlier romances , taken down from the recital of different persons , vary so much from one another , as in the case of the Chanson de Roland . A few romances , by known ...
... copy . This is the reason that different manuscripts of the earlier romances , taken down from the recital of different persons , vary so much from one another , as in the case of the Chanson de Roland . A few romances , by known ...
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... copy of Lanfranc , which accounts for the omission of the passages quoted by Sigebert . It appears also that Mabillon had in his possession a perfect copy of this work . In the manuscript of the British Museum just alluded to ...
... copy of Lanfranc , which accounts for the omission of the passages quoted by Sigebert . It appears also that Mabillon had in his possession a perfect copy of this work . In the manuscript of the British Museum just alluded to ...
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... copy of Gerland's treatise on the Computus in the British Museum ; † the author appears to be learned in his subject , and avows that his design in compiling this work was to correct and clear up the errors and doubts of his ...
... copy of Gerland's treatise on the Computus in the British Museum ; † the author appears to be learned in his subject , and avows that his design in compiling this work was to correct and clear up the errors and doubts of his ...
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... copy , and immediately undertook to abridge and perfect it . We are informed by William of Malmsbury , that he executed his task with so much skill and judgment , that the abridg- ment was worthy to supersede the too extensive and ...
... copy , and immediately undertook to abridge and perfect it . We are informed by William of Malmsbury , that he executed his task with so much skill and judgment , that the abridg- ment was worthy to supersede the too extensive and ...
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Page xviii - And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Page xvii - And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
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