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Here he was much captivated with the liturgy of the Roman church , and their manner of chanting , for until then the Gallican or Mozarabic liturgy was used both in Britain and Ireland , as is alluded to in ...
Here he was much captivated with the liturgy of the Roman church , and their manner of chanting , for until then the Gallican or Mozarabic liturgy was used both in Britain and Ireland , as is alluded to in ...
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... I principally desired , and therefore it is more pleasing , for the love of him ( according to my capacity ) , in a few words to relate in what manner he departed this world , understanding that you also desire and ask the same .
... I principally desired , and therefore it is more pleasing , for the love of him ( according to my capacity ) , in a few words to relate in what manner he departed this world , understanding that you also desire and ask the same .
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A few unimport- ant additions are afterwards made in a hurried and incidental manner , evidently showing that Bede's information upon this head was neither copious nor definite . " The monks of Lastingham furnished materials relative to ...
A few unimport- ant additions are afterwards made in a hurried and incidental manner , evidently showing that Bede's information upon this head was neither copious nor definite . " The monks of Lastingham furnished materials relative to ...
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The Chronicles of Abingdon , of Worcester , of Peterborough , and others , are continued in the same manner by different hands ; partly , though not exclusively , by monks of those monasteries , who very naturally inserted many ...
The Chronicles of Abingdon , of Worcester , of Peterborough , and others , are continued in the same manner by different hands ; partly , though not exclusively , by monks of those monasteries , who very naturally inserted many ...
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In like manner , Daniel , the most reverend Bishop of the West Saxons , who is still living , communicated to me in writing some things relating to the Ecclesiastical History of that province , and the next adjoin Afterwards Archbishop ...
In like manner , Daniel , the most reverend Bishop of the West Saxons , who is still living , communicated to me in writing some things relating to the Ecclesiastical History of that province , and the next adjoin Afterwards Archbishop ...
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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.
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| Title | The venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical history of England, also the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, with notes, ed. by J.A. Giles |
| Author | Bede (the venerable.) |
| Editor | John Allen Giles |
| Contributor | Anglo-Saxon chronicle |
| Edition | 5 |
| Published | 1881 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 14 May 2007 |
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