a short history of english literature by edward albert pdf

... The accounts also stated what days' works were due from each tenant according to the season of the year, and at the end of each year there was a careful valuation of live and dead stock.[129] ... century a lease of 2 acres of arable land in Nowton, Suffolk, let the land at 6d. an acre per annum for a term of six years.[150] It contains no clauses about cultivation; the landlord warrants ... years after the Peasants' Revolt another attempt was made to regulate agricultural wages by the statute 12 Ric. II, c. 4, which stated that 'the hires of the said servants and labourers...

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... noble architecture in cathedrals and palaces, of formal religious ritual, and of the pomp and display of all elaborate pageantry. In the outcome they largely reshaped the heavy mass of Anglo-Saxon ... ones as Burns' 'Cotter's Saturday Night,' Byron's 'Childe Harold,' Keats' 'Eve of St. Agnes,' and Shelley's 'Adonais.' In general ... years beginning in 1660. Pepys, who ultimately became Secretary to the Admiralty, and was a hard-working and very able naval official, was also astonishingly naïf and vain. In his 'Diary'...

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... was avoided in the name of regulatory forbearance. Repealing Glass-Steagall The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 had established a firm separation between commerce and banking in the financial ... Reserve also played a role in guaranteeing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of assets at Citigroup and Bank of America. Additionally, the Fed has created several special lending facilities ... among other things, commercial paper, municipal bonds, and mortgage-backed securities. In August 1987, Alan Greenspan was appointed as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. A student of Ayn Rand’s...

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... had followed Fabyan as an English historian, and, above all, Latimer's Sermons had shown how to transform spoken English of the raciest kind into literature. Lord Berners's translations ... was written to another father of English prose, Sir Thomas Hoby, the translator of Castiglione's Courtier. But Ascham had already and some years earlier published his Toxophilus, and various ... translations of Froissart and of divers examples of late Continental romance had provided much prose of no mean quality for light reading, and also by their imitation of the florid and fanciful style of...

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... Welsh wars. And it was by means of these magnificent concentric castles—Conway, Beaumaris, Carnarvon, and Harlech—that Edward hoped to keep Wales. There are many kinds of bows. In war two were ... Tribal System in Wales, Clark's Medieval Military Architecture, Morris' Welsh Wars of Edward I., Southall's Wales and Her Language. In writing local history, A. N. Palmer's ... stands, had protected William Marshall against Llywelyn and had enabled an important district to remain a "little England beyond Wales," was the last mediaeval castle to take an important...

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... into circulation 60 Withdrawing national banknotes and coins 62 Adapting cash dispensers and cash- operated machines 64 Exchanging national banknotes at face value 66 CHAPTER 5: COMMUNICATION 69 Preparing ... spread as broadly as possible via TV commercials, print adverts, the internet and other channels, and a pivotal role here was played by the Euro 2002 Information Campaign, conducted by the ECB and ... printing and hot-stamped holograms on banknotes. The visual and machine-readable features of all the test banknotes underwent exhaustive laboratory checks. For example, the banknotes’ chemical and...

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... control themselves. – War against Antioch III, king of Syria and Asia Minor (192–188 BC). Rome was able to break the power of this king and obtain control of the eastern part of the Mediterranean by means of a system ... secular law. Furthermore, archaic law—like the law of nearly all primitive peoples—was of a formalistic nature. To ensure that a certain transaction would have the desired result, it always had ... The pontiffs have always been regarded as guardians of the law; they were primarily concerned with the application of sacral law such as the regulation of the calendar, but at the same time they...

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... Cockatoo. Dugong. Gamboge. Gong. Gutta-percha. Mandarin. Mango. Orang-outang. Rattan. Sago. Upas. PERSIAN. Awning. Bazaar. Bashaw. Caravan. Check. Checkmate. Chess. Curry. Dervish. Divan. Firman. ... 'they askance their eyes'; as a noun, 'the backward and abysm of time'; or as an adjective, &apos ;a seldom pleasure.' Any noun, adjective, or neuter verb can be used as an active ... Hazard. Horde. Houri. Jar. Jackal. Jasmine. Lac (a gum). Lemon. Lilac. Lime (the fruit). Musk. Orange. Paradise. Pasha. Rook. Saraband. Sash. Scimitar. Shawl. Taffeta. Turban. POLYNESIAN DIALECTS. Boomerang....

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... Beelzebub, and a crowd of allegorical personages. But the battles and debats of a chivalric age were not only religious; there are battles of wine and water, battles of fast and feasting, battles of ... his character as a man, he belonged to an age of philosophers and sentimentalists, an age of "virtue" and "nature." Shakespeare's translation is as strange as that of his ... Statira, daughter of Darius; the Prince de Conde masks in Cleopatre as Coriolan; Pharamond is the Grand Monarch in disguise. Notwithstanding the faded gallantries and amorous casuistry of La Calprenede's...

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... near about the same time the Apothecaries Charter was granted; and being almost nothing else but a supply of what was short in their former Grants, viz. That whereas their Charter granted by ... abuses daily increase since the Censors, discouraged by the multitude of and also make their own Medicines as well as they, especially since the Apothecary may as easily falsify, and to greater ... to take away their Charter, Oyls drawn from Plants by distillation hardly flame, and the flame soon goes out, and the smoak gives a full flavour of the Plant it self, whereas those sophisticated...

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... (1996) Anticoagulant activity of Triatoma infestans and Panstrongylus megistus saliva (Hemiptera ⁄ Triatominae). Acta Trop 61, 255–261. 4 Amino R, Tanaka AS & Schenkman S (2001) Triapsin, an ... Porto RM, Chammas R, Egami MI & Schenkman S (1998) Identification and characterization of a sialidase released by the salivary gland of the hematophagous insect Triatoma infestans. J Biol ... Morita A, Isawa H, Orito Y, Iwanaga S, Chinzei Y & Yuda M (2006) Identification and characterization of a collagen-induced platelet aggregation inhibitor, triplatin, from salivary glands of...

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... of classical and romantic fancy, of pagan and Christian theology, of real and fictitious history, of tragical and comic incidents, of familiar and heroic manners, and of satirical and sublime ... Chrestien's 'Perceval' it will be found, again and again, in the prose of Sir Thomas Malory; it will be found in many ballads and ballad burdens, in 'William and Margaret,' in 'Binnorie,' ... Rossettis in England and of Longfellow and Dr. Parsons in America that any poetry of a really Dantesque inspiration and, at the same time, of high original value was added to our literature. [18] The...

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