| Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1788 - 430 pages
...when it was invented, are very well known. It is however certain, that it had been difcovered about the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, that a needle touched with a loadftone, pointed towards the north j and that endeavours were then ufed... | |
| Alexander Ranken - France - 1804 - 412 pages
...and fouth of the Loire *. Few writings remain, if they ever exifted, in the Romans language, before the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century. St. Bernard, however, who wrote fermons about AD 1137, is one exception5; the book of the 3 Hift. Lit.... | |
| Charles Henry Wilson - Authors, Irish - 1804 - 284 pages
...his Notes on the Canterbury Tales (vol. ii. p. 491), is of opinion that this book was composed about the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century. The story of the Three Rings is the eighty-ninth in the book, and may also be found in the Cento Ncn>elle-Antiche,... | |
| David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...about the year 480 d. Brunell, it has been conjectured, was a native of Germany, and flourished about the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century. He composed many Latin poems which have never been published : but his Sententia de Ordinibus Religiosis... | |
| Charles Henry Wilson - Authors, Irish - 1804 - 286 pages
...Notes on the Canterbury Tales (vol. ii. p. 49 1 ), is of opinion that this book was composed about the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century. The story of the Three Rings is the eighty-ninth in the book, and may also be found in the Cento Novelle... | |
| John Leeds Bozman - America - 1811 - 404 pages
...preface to his chronicle, takes notice of many different ways of computation in his time, that is at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century. He says, that some computed from the annunciation, some from the nativity, some from the circumcision,... | |
| Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1814 - 436 pages
...when it was invented, are very well known. It is however certain, that it had been difcovered about the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, that a needle touched with a loadftone pointed towards the north ; and that endeavours were then ufed... | |
| Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1814 - 434 pages
...when it was invented, are very well known. It is however certain, that it had been difcovered about the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, that a needle touched with a loadftone pointed towards the north ; and that endeavours were then ufed... | |
| Catherine Hutton - Africa - 1819 - 488 pages
...preserved with every mark of esteem and veneration. The fourth of these, who was called Lalibala, lived at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century. In the reign of this prince, persecution drove a number of hewers and builders of stone from Egypt... | |
| Great Britain - 1820 - 494 pages
...divine, says, that indulgences were not necessary in the first ages of the Church, and that they were not devised till the people were frightened with the...commission of sin, such as rigorous fasts, bodily pains and * Thuanug, lib. 63. sect. 14. 6 mortifications, long and frequent prayers, and pilgrimages to the tombs... | |
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