A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text-book for the Higher Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
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... many of the learned of that day took it for true history , and thought it expedient that missionaries should be sent out to convert so wise a people to Christianity . D OF LAWS AND LAWYERS . " They have but few 1509-1547 . ] 49 MORE .
... many of the learned of that day took it for true history , and thought it expedient that missionaries should be sent out to convert so wise a people to Christianity . D OF LAWS AND LAWYERS . " They have but few 1509-1547 . ] 49 MORE .
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... . 8 See the admirable edition of the " Works of Surrey and Wyatt , " by George F. Nott , D. D. , two volumes , quarto , London , 1816 . courtier and the gravity of the Christian . But what 1509-1547 . ] 55 WYATT . SIR THOMAS WYATT.
... . 8 See the admirable edition of the " Works of Surrey and Wyatt , " by George F. Nott , D. D. , two volumes , quarto , London , 1816 . courtier and the gravity of the Christian . But what 1509-1547 . ] 55 WYATT . SIR THOMAS WYATT.
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... Christian . But what distinguished him more than even his talents or the powers of his wit , was a certain generous con- tempt of vice and an exalted love of virtue , which seem to have been the great bond of union between the noble ...
... Christian . But what distinguished him more than even his talents or the powers of his wit , was a certain generous con- tempt of vice and an exalted love of virtue , which seem to have been the great bond of union between the noble ...
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... Christian purity , a beautiful view of a true Christian father : - MY DEAR SON , -Inasmuch as now ye are come to some years of understanding , and that you should gather within yourself some fame of Honesty , I thought that I should not ...
... Christian purity , a beautiful view of a true Christian father : - MY DEAR SON , -Inasmuch as now ye are come to some years of understanding , and that you should gather within yourself some fame of Honesty , I thought that I should not ...
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... - cutors , their exemplary and triumphant death . " - Lectures on Paganism and Christianity compared , hy John Ireland , D. D. - a most admirable work . hundred sheep , and my mother milked 30 kine . E 6 * 1553-1558 . ] 65 LATIMER .
... - cutors , their exemplary and triumphant death . " - Lectures on Paganism and Christianity compared , hy John Ireland , D. D. - a most admirable work . hundred sheep , and my mother milked 30 kine . E 6 * 1553-1558 . ] 65 LATIMER .
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