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... England was completed in 1070 . William gave English estates to his followers and made them into a small ruling ... England , it could not prevent the steady rise of the English language until it became again , in the fourteenth century ...
... England was completed in 1070 . William gave English estates to his followers and made them into a small ruling ... England , it could not prevent the steady rise of the English language until it became again , in the fourteenth century ...
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... England - was giving way in England to Parisian French , the standard French of France , which indicated that its knowledge was a polite accomplishment rather than a native endowment . Besides French and English there was Latin , the ...
... England - was giving way in England to Parisian French , the standard French of France , which indicated that its knowledge was a polite accomplishment rather than a native endowment . Besides French and English there was Latin , the ...
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... England , Catholic in profession but national in character , repudiating the authority of the Pope but episcopal in organization , a national Catholic Church stripped of the abuses of Rome but resisting the demands of the Puritans for ...
... England , Catholic in profession but national in character , repudiating the authority of the Pope but episcopal in organization , a national Catholic Church stripped of the abuses of Rome but resisting the demands of the Puritans for ...
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CHAPTER PAGE 1 ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE | 3 |
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THE VICTORIAN POETS 993 | 13 |
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