The Life of King Arthur: From Ancient Historians and Authentic DocumentsPayne and Foss, 1825 - 172 páginas |
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Página vii
... Bede had made of them in a creditable trea- tise , I could find nothing of the kings who had inhabited Britain before the incarnation of Christ : nor , even , of Arthur and the many others who succeeded after the incarnation : when both ...
... Bede had made of them in a creditable trea- tise , I could find nothing of the kings who had inhabited Britain before the incarnation of Christ : nor , even , of Arthur and the many others who succeeded after the incarnation : when both ...
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... Bede's ecclesiastical his- tory , Gildas's querulous epistle on the destruc- tion of Britain , and Nennius's Eulogium Britan- niae , the legends of saint Alban , saint Dubricius , saint Ursula , or others , not a single name or in ...
... Bede's ecclesiastical his- tory , Gildas's querulous epistle on the destruc- tion of Britain , and Nennius's Eulogium Britan- niae , the legends of saint Alban , saint Dubricius , saint Ursula , or others , not a single name or in ...
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... Bede , " he says , " wrote the history of our nation that is of the Engles : who , doubtless , took up his begin- ning the lower that he might the more com- petently attain to that which he especially in- tended he even , with artful ...
... Bede , " he says , " wrote the history of our nation that is of the Engles : who , doubtless , took up his begin- ning the lower that he might the more com- petently attain to that which he especially in- tended he even , with artful ...
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... Bede , are authentic : all things which this man has taken pains to write , con- cerning Arthur , and either his successors , or , after Vortigern , his predecessors , partly by him- self , partly , also , by others , have , it is ...
... Bede , are authentic : all things which this man has taken pains to write , con- cerning Arthur , and either his successors , or , after Vortigern , his predecessors , partly by him- self , partly , also , by others , have , it is ...
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... Bede puts Ethelbert , the patron of Augustine , in the kingdom of the Engles , the fourth from Hengist . Therefore , the reign of Arthur and the entry of Augustine into Britain ought to con- But how much the mere truth of history will ...
... Bede puts Ethelbert , the patron of Augustine , in the kingdom of the Engles , the fourth from Hengist . Therefore , the reign of Arthur and the entry of Augustine into Britain ought to con- But how much the mere truth of history will ...
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Página xiv - ... we do not know, it may be urged with equal force, on the other hand, that all ova and spores, in so far as we know anything about them, are destroyed by prolonged boiling: therefore from analogy we are equally bound to infer that Vibrios...
Página 52 - Jews, having a harp, but, this is the first time, we have heard of the harp of the " mythological" king Arthur, " There are some very extraordinary things to be found," adds this perspicacious and far-sighted Welshman, "concerning the mythological Arthur, in the Mabinogion, and, particularly, in the story of Culhwch and Olwen, wherein we recognize adventures, which must have had a common origin with those of Hercules and the Argonautick voyage
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