The venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical history of England, also the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, with notes, ed. by J.A. Giles |
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... delivered according to the truth , he will not impute the same to me , who , as the true rule of history re- quires , have laboured sincerely to commit to writing such things as I could gather from common report , for the instruc- tion ...
... delivered according to the truth , he will not impute the same to me , who , as the true rule of history re- quires , have laboured sincerely to commit to writing such things as I could gather from common report , for the instruc- tion ...
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... deliver him up to the soldiers , that his contempt of the gods might meet with the penalty due to such blasphemy , you shall undergo all the punishment that was due to him , if you abandon the worship of our religion . " But St. Alban ...
... deliver him up to the soldiers , that his contempt of the gods might meet with the penalty due to such blasphemy , you shall undergo all the punishment that was due to him , if you abandon the worship of our religion . " But St. Alban ...
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... delivered from darkness and filled with the light of truth . The parents rejoiced , and the people were astonished at the miracle ; after which , the wicked opinions were so fully obliterated from the minds of all , that they ardently ...
... delivered from darkness and filled with the light of truth . The parents rejoiced , and the people were astonished at the miracle ; after which , the wicked opinions were so fully obliterated from the minds of all , that they ardently ...
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... deliver them from it . They fled in disorder , casting away their Arms , and well satisfied if , with their naked bodies , they could 1 escape the danger ; many of them , in their precipitate and hasty flight , were swallowed up by the ...
... deliver them from it . They fled in disorder , casting away their Arms , and well satisfied if , with their naked bodies , they could 1 escape the danger ; many of them , in their precipitate and hasty flight , were swallowed up by the ...
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... delivered whole to his father . The multitude was amazed at the miracle , and the Catholic faith was firmly planted in the minds of all ; after which , they were , in a sermon , warned and exhorted to make amends for their errors . By ...
... delivered whole to his father . The multitude was amazed at the miracle , and the Catholic faith was firmly planted in the minds of all ; after which , they were , in a sermon , warned and exhorted to make amends for their errors . By ...
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Page 291 - Benedict, and afterwards by Ceolfrid ; and spending all the remaining time of my life in that monastery, I wholly applied myself to the study of Scripture, and amidst the observance of regular discipline, and the daily care of singing in the church, I always took delight in learning, teaching, and writing.
Page 82 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 42 - For things are not to be loved for the sake of places, but places for the sake of good things.
Page 165 - And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek : and his rest shall be glorious.
Page 165 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 48 - Not that which goeth into the mouth, defileth a man : but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Page 165 - And I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, To establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages ; That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth ; To them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves.
Page 154 - All our forefathers, men beloved of God, are known to have kept it after the same manner ; and that the same may not seem to any contemptible or worthy to be rejected, it is the same which St. John the evangelist, the disciple beloved of our Lord, with all the Churches over which he presided, is recorded to have observed.