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The sixth lecture having temporarily gone amissing before its delivery, Dr Mitchell prepared a rescension of it.
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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The original and the rescension are now combined in chapter x.
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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Diad episode in YBL are similar, and evidently belong to the same rescension.
Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday
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Finally we read the full story in the original draft of Giles Tschudi's chronicle, where the hero is described "as a man of Unterwalden, of the Winkelried family," this being expanded in the first rescension of the chronicle (1564) into "a man of Unterwalden, Arnold von Winkelried by name, a brave knight;" while he is entered (in the same book, on the authority of the
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