A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on English MetresGinn brothers, 1873 - 567 |
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... mind , working with scanty materials , imper- fect tools , and under adverse circumstances , which , like stars scattered over a dark portion of the sky , stud the dreary period that intervenes between the break - up of the ancient ...
... mind , working with scanty materials , imper- fect tools , and under adverse circumstances , which , like stars scattered over a dark portion of the sky , stud the dreary period that intervenes between the break - up of the ancient ...
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... mind was ever labouring , so far as intestine war and Danish inroad would allow , and executed a very creditable amount of work . Its chief successes , it is true , were obtained through the medium of the Latin , then and long after the ...
... mind was ever labouring , so far as intestine war and Danish inroad would allow , and executed a very creditable amount of work . Its chief successes , it is true , were obtained through the medium of the Latin , then and long after the ...
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... mind to the contemplation of the Deity , and seeking to understand what he believes . ' Yet we may be certain that St. Anselm himself , like all the saints , derived the certainty of his religious convictions through the will rather ...
... mind to the contemplation of the Deity , and seeking to understand what he believes . ' Yet we may be certain that St. Anselm himself , like all the saints , derived the certainty of his religious convictions through the will rather ...
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... his authority was at last considered infallible in the schools . It was as if the age , in its horror of losing Iwould have a sheet anchor for the mind as well its way , D G as for the soul , and chain the progressive THE NORMAN PERIOD .
... his authority was at last considered infallible in the schools . It was as if the age , in its horror of losing Iwould have a sheet anchor for the mind as well its way , D G as for the soul , and chain the progressive THE NORMAN PERIOD .
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... mind of Christendom in that age ; but , after all , the Archbishop was too strong for him , and another man was appointed . After this great disappointment we hear little more of our fiery friend , who appears to have lived some ...
... mind of Christendom in that age ; but , after all , the Archbishop was too strong for him , and another man was appointed . After this great disappointment we hear little more of our fiery friend , who appears to have lived some ...
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