A Manual of English Literature: And of the History of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest. With Numerous SpecimensGriffin, 1867 - 536 pagina's |
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... England by the Normans in the year 1066 may be regarded as having been professedly a conquest of this last description . The age of both the first and the second kinds of conquest was over , at least everywhere throughout Europe except ...
... England by the Normans in the year 1066 may be regarded as having been professedly a conquest of this last description . The age of both the first and the second kinds of conquest was over , at least everywhere throughout Europe except ...
Pagina 59
... England as in every other country of Western Christendom ; there was nothing new in that ; we continue to have it after the Conquest just as we had it before the Conquest . But it is quite otherwise with the writing of French ; that was ...
... England as in every other country of Western Christendom ; there was nothing new in that ; we continue to have it after the Conquest just as we had it before the Conquest . But it is quite otherwise with the writing of French ; that was ...
Pagina 78
... England were occu- pied by Italians . But the practice , although notoriously founded on the monopolizing and arbitrary spirit of papal imposition , and a manifest act of injustice to the English clergy , probably contributed to ...
... England were occu- pied by Italians . But the practice , although notoriously founded on the monopolizing and arbitrary spirit of papal imposition , and a manifest act of injustice to the English clergy , probably contributed to ...
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The Languages of Modern Europe | 1 |
The Celtic Languages and Literatures | 7 |
Original English commonly called Saxon or AngloSaxon | 15 |
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