The Saints and Missionaries of the Anglo-Saxon EraMowbray, 1901 |
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Abbat Abbess Abbey afterwards Aldred Alfred Alfred's Alphege Altar Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Archbishop arrived Athelm Athelstan baptized became began Bishop Bishop of Worcester body Boniface brother brought built buried called Canterbury Carloman Cathedral cell child CHRIST Christianity Church Clergy consecrated Court Croyland Cruland Danes Danish death devotion died Dunstan Earl Godwin East Anglia Edgar Edmund Edward Egwin England English Ethelbald Ethelred Ethelred the Unready Ethelwold Ethelwulf faith father favour Friesland gave Germany Glastonbury Guthlac hands holy honour journey King King's Kingdom labours lady land Lioba lived LORD Lullus Malmesbury Martyr Mercia mind Missionaries monks nobles obtained old writer palace passed pilgrimage pious Pope prayer preaching Prince Queen received reign religion religious houses remained returned Rome royal Saint Saxons seemed seized sent shew soon spent throne told took Wessex whilst Willibald Willibrord Winchester Winfrid Winibald Worcester Wulstan zeal
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Page 386 - They were accustomed to eat till they became surfeited, and to drink till they were sick. These latter qualities they imparted to their conquerors ; as to the rest, they adopted their manners.
Page 278 - ... far-famed lady. Terrified almost to death with this dreadful pleasantry, he hastened before to his wife, entreating that she would administer to his safety by attiring herself as unbecomingly as possible ; then first disclosing the intention of such a proceeding. But what did not this...
Page 205 - Divine inspiration, and allured by the beautifully illuminated letter at the beginning of the volume, he spoke before all his brothers, who, though his seniors in age, were not so in grace, and answered, "Will you really give that book to one of us, that is to say, to him who can first understand and repeat it to you?
Page 269 - In this year all the chief witan of the English nation fell at Calne from an upper chamber, except the holy archbishop Dunstan, who alone supported himself upon a beam ; and there were some grievously maimed, and some did not escape it with life.
Page 216 - ... inspiriting his subjects, with the signal display of his courage. He would oppose himself singly to the enemy; and by his own personal exertions rally his declining forces. The very places are yet pointed out by the inhabitants where he felt the vicissitudes of good and evil fortune. It was necessary to contend with Alfred even after he was overcome...
Page 278 - Ordgar, duke [chieftain] of Devonshire, (whose charms had so fascinated the eyes of some persons, that they commended her to the king) and to offer her marriage, if her beauty were really equal to report. Hastening on his embassy, and finding every thing consonant to general estimation, he concealed his mission from her parents, and procured the damsel for himself. Returning to the king, he told a tale which made for his own purpose, that she was a girl nothing out of the common...
Page 204 - Stimulated by these words, or rather by the Divine inspiration, and allured by the beautifully illuminated letter at the beginning of the volume, he spoke before all his brothers, who, though his seniors in age, were not so in grace, and answered, " Will you really give that book to...
Page 47 - Frisland, preached the word of salvation for the space of two years successively to that nation and to its king, Rathbed ; but reaped no fruit of all his great labour among his barbarous auditors. Returning then to the beloved place of his peregrination, he gave himself up to our Lord in his wonted repose, and since he could not be profitable to strangers by teaching them the faith, he took care to be the more useful to his own people by the example of his virtue.
Page 385 - The clergy, contented with a very slight degree of learning, could scarcely stammer out the words of the sacraments, and a person who understood grammar was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments, and the use of every kind of food. The nobility, given up to luxury and wantonness, went not to church in the morning after the manner of Christians, but merely, in a careless manner, heard matins and masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers.
Page 25 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.