The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 páginas |
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... Church - Aspect of Medieval Literature . - 5 . Languages used in the Middle Ages - French - English - Latin . - 6 . Other Features of Literature in the Middle Ages - Its Sectional Character - The want of Printing . - 7 . Modern Times ...
... Church - Aspect of Medieval Literature . - 5 . Languages used in the Middle Ages - French - English - Latin . - 6 . Other Features of Literature in the Middle Ages - Its Sectional Character - The want of Printing . - 7 . Modern Times ...
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... Church of Rome . Literature was especially nourished by the consolidation of the new Languages , which were successively developed in all European countries , so far that they soon became fully qualified as instruments for communicat ...
... Church of Rome . Literature was especially nourished by the consolidation of the new Languages , which were successively developed in all European countries , so far that they soon became fully qualified as instruments for communicat ...
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... church . Neither of these changes was unproductive of good in the state of society which then pre- vailed . But both of them were distasteful to our nation ; both of them rapidly became in reality injurious both to freedom and to ...
... church . Neither of these changes was unproductive of good in the state of society which then pre- vailed . But both of them were distasteful to our nation ; both of them rapidly became in reality injurious both to freedom and to ...
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... church and of learning , here as elsewhere , throughout the Dark and Middle Ages . Accordingly , till we reach Modern Times , we cannot altogether overlook the literature which was expressed in it , if we would acquire a full idea of ...
... church and of learning , here as elsewhere , throughout the Dark and Middle Ages . Accordingly , till we reach Modern Times , we cannot altogether overlook the literature which was expressed in it , if we would acquire a full idea of ...
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... church . It is doubtful at what time the seeds of spiritual life were first scattered on our island shores ... churches . But any progress which the true faith may have made among our fore- fathers , in the Roman times , seems to have ...
... church . It is doubtful at what time the seeds of spiritual life were first scattered on our island shores ... churches . But any progress which the true faith may have made among our fore- fathers , in the Roman times , seems to have ...
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