English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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... land without pay ; the rest of the time they might spend on the land he had assigned to them for their own use . One of the great social changes of the middle ages was that many of the villeins became free laborers or small farmers ...
... land without pay ; the rest of the time they might spend on the land he had assigned to them for their own use . One of the great social changes of the middle ages was that many of the villeins became free laborers or small farmers ...
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... land and become hired laborers . The more prosper- ous type of tenant farmer , able to take land - often for long periods - on a leasehold , bettered his condition ; but the hired helper became duller and more stolid than his more ...
... land and become hired laborers . The more prosper- ous type of tenant farmer , able to take land - often for long periods - on a leasehold , bettered his condition ; but the hired helper became duller and more stolid than his more ...
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... land , but secured the disestablishment of the Irish Episcopal Church , and tried to relieve the Irish tenant farmers from the abuses under which they suffered . These measures did not satisfy Ireland , and the Irish leader Parnell with ...
... land , but secured the disestablishment of the Irish Episcopal Church , and tried to relieve the Irish tenant farmers from the abuses under which they suffered . These measures did not satisfy Ireland , and the Irish leader Parnell with ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
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