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... less inter- esting as a man , he is none the less notable for the addition he made to sea records of the time ; espe- cially true in the earlier years of the seventeenth century . He reflects the same keen spirit of nationality , and ...
... less inter- esting as a man , he is none the less notable for the addition he made to sea records of the time ; espe- cially true in the earlier years of the seventeenth century . He reflects the same keen spirit of nationality , and ...
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... less versatile as a personality , is Sir CHARLES SEDLEY . When James II took his daughter for a mistress and made her Countess of Dorchester , he observed , " I hate ingratitude ; the King has made my daughter a Countess , I can do no less ...
... less versatile as a personality , is Sir CHARLES SEDLEY . When James II took his daughter for a mistress and made her Countess of Dorchester , he observed , " I hate ingratitude ; the King has made my daughter a Countess , I can do no less ...
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... less culture and less money , has had its effect upon our poets , novelists , and essayists . But if the advance of democratic ideals has not been inimical to literature - for so far from chilling its vitality it has given it a greater ...
... less culture and less money , has had its effect upon our poets , novelists , and essayists . But if the advance of democratic ideals has not been inimical to literature - for so far from chilling its vitality it has given it a greater ...
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Medieval Scholarship and the Latin Writers | 1 |
Middle English Period 10661400 | 7 |
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