| 1762 - 578 pages
...monk of Canterbury, in the preface to his chronicle (Gerv. Doroborn, int. x. fcript. coJ. 1336, &c.) takes notice of many different ways of computation in his time, that is, at the end of the xiith, or the beginning of the xiiith century. He fays, that fome computed from the annunciation, fome... | |
| Robert Henry - 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... | |
| 1802 - 522 pages
...monk of Canterbury, in the preface to his chronicle (Gerv. Dt-.roborn, int. \. script, col. 133U, &c.J takes notice of many different ways of computation in his time, that is, at the end of the xiith, or the beginning of the xiiith century. He says, that some computed from the annunciation, some... | |
| David Irving - 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... | |
| Alexander Ranken - 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 - 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... | |
| Charles Henry Wilson - 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,... | |
| Robert Henry - 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... | |
| Robert Henry - 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... | |
| Catherine Hutton - 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... | |
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