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... received with all the honours due to the deliverer of the capital of the old Roman empire . At the distance of thirty miles from the city , the magistrates and nobles came forth to meet him , bearing the sacred banner of the patricians ...
... received with all the honours due to the deliverer of the capital of the old Roman empire . At the distance of thirty miles from the city , the magistrates and nobles came forth to meet him , bearing the sacred banner of the patricians ...
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... received it should be treated with " tenderness and affection , " and that small libraries should be placed in the churches for their use . Charlemagne himself took great the progress of his young scholars . that children belonging to ...
... received it should be treated with " tenderness and affection , " and that small libraries should be placed in the churches for their use . Charlemagne himself took great the progress of his young scholars . that children belonging to ...
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... receiving it as a gift from " God , his father , and the people . " It was the last time father and son met . They parted with much affection . In the January of the year following , Charlemagne was attacked by pleurisy ; and after a ...
... receiving it as a gift from " God , his father , and the people . " It was the last time father and son met . They parted with much affection . In the January of the year following , Charlemagne was attacked by pleurisy ; and after a ...
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... received in battle ; and left the kingdom in a very distressed state to Alfred , who was then in the twenty - third year of his age . The history of his reign is that of one continued , and at length happily ended , struggle against the ...
... received in battle ; and left the kingdom in a very distressed state to Alfred , who was then in the twenty - third year of his age . The history of his reign is that of one continued , and at length happily ended , struggle against the ...
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... receiving baptism : for the Danes were pagans , and Alfred's sincere piety would be gratified by their conversion to Christianity , while he would naturally have more confidence in the pledges given by those who owned the same faith ...
... receiving baptism : for the Danes were pagans , and Alfred's sincere piety would be gratified by their conversion to Christianity , while he would naturally have more confidence in the pledges given by those who owned the same faith ...
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