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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... honor is to be awarded from the discovery of the principle , it is unquestionably due to Lawrence Coster , of Haarlem , who first found out the method of impressing characters on paper , by means of blocks of carved wood , about 1430 ...
... honor is to be awarded from the discovery of the principle , it is unquestionably due to Lawrence Coster , of Haarlem , who first found out the method of impressing characters on paper , by means of blocks of carved wood , about 1430 ...
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... honor of knighthood , and appointed him one of his privy council . In 1529 , on the disgrace of Cardinal Wolsey , he was appointed Lord Chancellor , being the first layman who ever held the office . But he was soon to experience in ...
... honor of knighthood , and appointed him one of his privy council . In 1529 , on the disgrace of Cardinal Wolsey , he was appointed Lord Chancellor , being the first layman who ever held the office . But he was soon to experience in ...
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... honor . The last , however , proved fatal to him : for having been sent by the king to Falmouth to conduct the ambassador of the Emperor Charles V. to court , he rode too fast , took ill of a fever , and died in October , 1542 , in the ...
... honor . The last , however , proved fatal to him : for having been sent by the king to Falmouth to conduct the ambassador of the Emperor Charles V. to court , he rode too fast , took ill of a fever , and died in October , 1542 , in the ...
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... honor of knight- hood . Sir John was a zealous protestant ; in consequence of which he was severely persecuted by the bigoted Mary , twice imprisoned in the Tower , stript of his whole substance , and ultimately reduced to that dilemma ...
... honor of knight- hood . Sir John was a zealous protestant ; in consequence of which he was severely persecuted by the bigoted Mary , twice imprisoned in the Tower , stript of his whole substance , and ultimately reduced to that dilemma ...
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... honor to a goose for that good deed only , but for other infinite mo , " which come daily to a man by geese ; and surely if I should declaim in the praise of any manner of beast living , I would choose a goose . But the goose hath made ...
... honor to a goose for that good deed only , but for other infinite mo , " which come daily to a man by geese ; and surely if I should declaim in the praise of any manner of beast living , I would choose a goose . But the goose hath made ...
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