...time 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...

...died 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...

...in his 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...

...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....

...preface to his chronicle, takes notice of many different ways of computation in his time, that is at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century. He says, that some computed from the annunciation, some from the nativity, some from the circumcision,...

...time 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...

...time 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...

...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...

...schoolmen confess, that the use of indulgences commenced in the time of Pope Alexander III. towards the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, and from that period, until the folly and iniquity of them occasioned the reformation, the sale of them...

...schoolmen confess, that the use of indulgences commenced in the time of Pope Alexander III. towards the end of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century, and from that period, until the folly and iniquity of them occasioned the reformation, the sale of them...