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... German custom , were taught sewing , spinning , and to work in wool . They , too , shared with their father the instruction of our learned countryman . One of them , in a letter to Alcuin , pleasingly acknowledges his help in the ...
... German custom , were taught sewing , spinning , and to work in wool . They , too , shared with their father the instruction of our learned countryman . One of them , in a letter to Alcuin , pleasingly acknowledges his help in the ...
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... German emperor , who treated him like the vilest criminal , even , it is said , loading him with irons . He was at last brought before the Diet of the empire at Worms , and accused of many crimes , among which were enumerated his having ...
... German emperor , who treated him like the vilest criminal , even , it is said , loading him with irons . He was at last brought before the Diet of the empire at Worms , and accused of many crimes , among which were enumerated his having ...
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... German barons who accompanied him were so struck by the appearance of wealth which London even then presented as to say , that if their master had known of it , his prisoner's ransom would have been the larger . To punish Philip's ...
... German barons who accompanied him were so struck by the appearance of wealth which London even then presented as to say , that if their master had known of it , his prisoner's ransom would have been the larger . To punish Philip's ...
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... Germans and Lombards . The war - horses , saddled with their flowing trappings reaching to the ground , were placed in the flat boats ; their riders in complete armour , helmets laced , and lance in hand , stood each one by his charger ...
... Germans and Lombards . The war - horses , saddled with their flowing trappings reaching to the ground , were placed in the flat boats ; their riders in complete armour , helmets laced , and lance in hand , stood each one by his charger ...
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... German sword . But famine and sickness among his troops favoured the arms of the Moslems , and retreat upon Damietta , which he still kept , became inevitable . Himself sinking under an attack of the fearful pestilence that raged among ...
... German sword . But famine and sickness among his troops favoured the arms of the Moslems , and retreat upon Damietta , which he still kept , became inevitable . Himself sinking under an attack of the fearful pestilence that raged among ...
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