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What really did surprise me, as I was reading the chronicles was their astonishing influence.— Larvatus Prodeo
Directed by Laurent Cantet, the movie called "Entre les murs" in French chronicles the experience of a teacher in an underprivileged school located in the French capital.— Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
But there appears to be no real historical evidence that Edward the Confessor was the first royal personage who healed by laying on of hands John Aubrey, in his "Miscellanies," asserts, on the authority of certain English chronicles, that in the reign of King Henry III (1206-1272), there lived a child who was endowed with the gift of healing, and whose touch cured many diseases.— Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
The thread of the nation's story was kept up in Latin chronicles, compiled by writers partly of English and partly of Norman descent.— Brief History of English and American Literature
But before doing so, it becomes necessary to mention certain Latin chronicles which furnished food for these Anglo-Norman poets and legendists WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY.--_William of Malmesbury_, the first Latin historian of distinction, who is contemporary with the Norman conquest, wrote a work called the "Heroic Deeds of the English Kings," (_Gesta Regum Anglorum_,) which extends from the arrival of the Saxons to the year 1120; another, "The New History," (_Historia Novella_,) brings the history down to 1142.— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction

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