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... thing apart , like the Irish or the Icelandic literature , and requires to be studied in connection with the fossil remains of other extinct cognate languages , such as the Old Saxon , the Mosogothic , and the Frisian . It is a chapter ...
... thing apart , like the Irish or the Icelandic literature , and requires to be studied in connection with the fossil remains of other extinct cognate languages , such as the Old Saxon , the Mosogothic , and the Frisian . It is a chapter ...
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... things may be gathered . From the following lines it would seem that the Goths knew not as yet how to coin money - And ic was mid Eormanrice ealle brage ; Þær me Gotena cyning gode dohte , Se me beag forgeaf , burg - warena fruma . On ...
... things may be gathered . From the following lines it would seem that the Goths knew not as yet how to coin money - And ic was mid Eormanrice ealle brage ; Þær me Gotena cyning gode dohte , Se me beag forgeaf , burg - warena fruma . On ...
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... things to hear of war and fighting ; now Con- stantine in the story only embraces Christianity because it has ... thing , or national assembly ; and in the account of the divine ferry- man , we cannot but trace the sagas about the Saxon ...
... things to hear of war and fighting ; now Con- stantine in the story only embraces Christianity because it has ... thing , or national assembly ; and in the account of the divine ferry- man , we cannot but trace the sagas about the Saxon ...
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... thing ; for without some degree of astro- nomical knowledge the calendar could not be computed , and the very church feasts could not be fixed to their proper dates . Moreover , the ignis fatuus of astrology-- the delusive belief that ...
... thing ; for without some degree of astro- nomical knowledge the calendar could not be computed , and the very church feasts could not be fixed to their proper dates . Moreover , the ignis fatuus of astrology-- the delusive belief that ...
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... things hold its ground . In poetry , the originality of the thought , the vigour and aptness of the expression , are what consti tutes the charm : we read it , not that we may learn about things , but that we may come in contact with ...
... things hold its ground . In poetry , the originality of the thought , the vigour and aptness of the expression , are what consti tutes the charm : we read it , not that we may learn about things , but that we may come in contact with ...
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