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Pictures of Old England
THE } following Pictures of Old England were originally "^sketched by the author with the view of more clearly^illustrating to his countrymen his History of England in the Middle Ages1, a work which is admitted by all who are capable of forming an opinion on the question to be characterized by impartial truthfulness and by indefatigable industry in the research of minute documentary evidence. The materials which were necessarily accumulated by Dr. Pauli during the progress of such a composition afforded him the ready means of elaborating, in a popular form, this series o* vivid sketches of the men and institutions of the good old times in the days of the Plantagenets. It will be readily seen that one of the principal objects aimed at by the author has been to bring^prominently^ forward the early intercourse which existed between England and Germany ; while he has endeavoured con amore
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