Pictures of Old EnglandMacmillan and Company, 1861 - 457 páginas |
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... scarcely larger than many a private burying vault or pilgrim's chapel . Roman bricks project between the stones , and these very stones were probably the witnesses of that world - re- nowned and most important ceremony of baptism ...
... scarcely larger than many a private burying vault or pilgrim's chapel . Roman bricks project between the stones , and these very stones were probably the witnesses of that world - re- nowned and most important ceremony of baptism ...
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... scarcely a trace of its existence , for nothing now remains to show where it once stood beyond a few pieces of the original costly mosaic with which the ground was paved . The spirit of intolerance has thus left traces of its presence ...
... scarcely a trace of its existence , for nothing now remains to show where it once stood beyond a few pieces of the original costly mosaic with which the ground was paved . The spirit of intolerance has thus left traces of its presence ...
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... scarcely a century after the introduction of Christianity , an almost classical mode of study was combined with practical theology under the direction of a primate of Greek origin , and its richest fruits were ripening in the far north ...
... scarcely a century after the introduction of Christianity , an almost classical mode of study was combined with practical theology under the direction of a primate of Greek origin , and its richest fruits were ripening in the far north ...
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... Scarcely were the struggles between the hereditary Kings of Wessex and Mercia definitely settled , when there occurred that fearful in- vasion of the pagan Danes , which , like the approach of a swarm of locusts , threatened to destroy ...
... Scarcely were the struggles between the hereditary Kings of Wessex and Mercia definitely settled , when there occurred that fearful in- vasion of the pagan Danes , which , like the approach of a swarm of locusts , threatened to destroy ...
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... fashion among princes and nobles , that scarcely any one should make his last will and testament without bequeathing to the monastic institution with which he had been most closely connected during MONKS AND MENDICANT FRIARS . 43.
... fashion among princes and nobles , that scarcely any one should make his last will and testament without bequeathing to the monastic institution with which he had been most closely connected during MONKS AND MENDICANT FRIARS . 43.
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