Legends of the Saxon SaintsC. Kegan Paul & Company, 1879 - 289 páginas |
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... once to what now exists , and also by the dissimilitude . Many coun- tries have unhappily lost almost all authentic records connected with their conversion . Such would have been the fate of England also , had it not been for a single ...
... once to what now exists , and also by the dissimilitude . Many coun- tries have unhappily lost almost all authentic records connected with their conversion . Such would have been the fate of England also , had it not been for a single ...
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... Once more periods of relaxed morals and sacrilegious princes alternated with intervals of reform ; again and again the Northmen over - swept the land . The 460 years of Anglo - Saxon Christianity constituted a period of memorable ...
... Once more periods of relaxed morals and sacrilegious princes alternated with intervals of reform ; again and again the Northmen over - swept the land . The 460 years of Anglo - Saxon Christianity constituted a period of memorable ...
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... once new quali- ties , like a wild flower which , on cultivation , acquires for the first time a perfume . Its spirit of reverence developed into humility , and its natural fortitude into a saintly patience ; while its fierceness ...
... once new quali- ties , like a wild flower which , on cultivation , acquires for the first time a perfume . Its spirit of reverence developed into humility , and its natural fortitude into a saintly patience ; while its fierceness ...
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... once accounted for by the tradition of the Odin migration from the East . A writer the reverse of credulous expresses himself thus on that sub- ject : ' We know that the Scandinavians came from some country of Asia . . . This doctrine ...
... once accounted for by the tradition of the Odin migration from the East . A writer the reverse of credulous expresses himself thus on that sub- ject : ' We know that the Scandinavians came from some country of Asia . . . This doctrine ...
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... once so unlike yet so like , so antagonistic yet so interwoven ! The aim of the ' Legends of Saxon Saints , ' as the reader will perhaps have inferred from the preceding remarks , is to illustrate England , her different races and ...
... once so unlike yet so like , so antagonistic yet so interwoven ! The aim of the ' Legends of Saxon Saints , ' as the reader will perhaps have inferred from the preceding remarks , is to illustrate England , her different races and ...
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