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There, an institution derived from French and Saxonic sources, but destined to be abortive in France, is developed to an extent unparalleled in any other country.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

A Collection of all the Ecclesiastical Laws, Canons, &c., &c., of the Church of England, from its First Foundation to the Conquest, that have hitherto been published in the Latin and Saxonic Tongues.

From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John

Other books treating of it are the following:— Earle, John: Land Charters and Saxonic Documents, Introduction.

From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Cheyney, Edward Potts

Gottsched, the founder and imitator of French standards in art and poetry, is known as the leader in the Saxonic school at Leipsic, and an advocate of classical poetry.

From The Interdependence of Literature by Curtis, Georgina Pell

In the eighteenth century arose the Saxonic and Swiss schools of literature, neither of which was devoted to national works.

From The Interdependence of Literature by Curtis, Georgina Pell