Eighth Century
- Beverley Grammar School, England (700)- Oldest state school in the world
- Gymnasium Paulinum, Germany (797)
- Gymnasium Theodorianum, Germany (799)
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Famous quotes containing the words eighth and/or century:
“The eighth day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Eight maids a-milking,”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 43–45)
“In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)