Select Translations from Old English Prose, Volume 10Albert Stanburrough Cook, Chauncey Brewster Tinker Ginn, 1908 - 296 pages |
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... evil - speaking men deter you ; but with all possible earnestness and zeal perform that which , by God's direction , you have undertaken , being assured that much labor is followed by an eternal reward . When Augustine , your chief ...
... evil - speaking men deter you ; but with all possible earnestness and zeal perform that which , by God's direction , you have undertaken , being assured that much labor is followed by an eternal reward . When Augustine , your chief ...
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... evil spirits dragging the howling and lamenting souls of five men into the midst of the darkness , while they themselves laughed and rejoiced above measure . Among those men , as I could discern , there was one tonsured like a clerk ...
... evil spirits dragging the howling and lamenting souls of five men into the midst of the darkness , while they themselves laughed and rejoiced above measure . Among those men , as I could discern , there was one tonsured like a clerk ...
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... evil spirits that sought to carry me away with their tongs dispersed and fled . 6 He whose approach put them to flight was the same that led me before , who then , turning towards the right , began to lead me , as it were , towards the ...
... evil spirits that sought to carry me away with their tongs dispersed and fled . 6 He whose approach put them to flight was the same that led me before , who then , turning towards the right , began to lead me , as it were , towards the ...
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... evil grew sore . May the end be good when God will ! 3 A.D. 1087. ... He died in Normandy the day after the Nativity of St. Mary , and was buried in Caen , at St. 1 Christmas . 2 William Fitzosbern , Earl of Hereford . ' To Bishop Odo ...
... evil grew sore . May the end be good when God will ! 3 A.D. 1087. ... He died in Normandy the day after the Nativity of St. Mary , and was buried in Caen , at St. 1 Christmas . 2 William Fitzosbern , Earl of Hereford . ' To Bishop Odo ...
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... evil , the other on fighting for life , and dear ones , and fatherland . When both armies had fought bravely and fiercely for a long while , the heathen , being unable by God's decree longer to endure the onset of the Christians , the ...
... evil , the other on fighting for life , and dear ones , and fatherland . When both armies had fought bravely and fiercely for a long while , the heathen , being unable by God's decree longer to endure the onset of the Christians , the ...
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abbot according Ælfric Æthelred Æthelweard Alcuin ALFRED'S Almighty Apollonius apostles Augustine Bagsecg Bede began believe Benedict Biscop bishop blessed blood body Boethius bread brethren Britain Britons brother Cædmon called Ceolfrith chap Christ Christian church command creatures cross death desire divine ealdormen Earl earth England eternal evil faith father Frische Haff glory God's gospel Gregory Hadrian hand hath heard heathen heathen army heaven heavenly hell holy homilies honor Hunter island King Alfred king's kingdom labor land Latin learned lest lived Lord mind miracles monastery monks nation never night Nothelm Old English Orosius Picts Plegmund Pope prayer preach priest Pupil received rejoiced Roman Rome saints Saxons servants soul spake spiritual teach Teacher thanes thee things thou art thou hast translation unto voyages of Ohthere West Saxons wisdom wise wish words Wulfstan
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Page 273 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand : for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 101 - God ; and how foreigners came to this land in search of wisdom and instruction, and how we should now have to get them from abroad if we were to have them.
Page 167 - This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
Page 35 - Edwin extended, that, as is still proverbially said, a woman with her new-born babe might walk throughout the island, from sea to sea, without receiving any harm. That king took such care for the good of his nation, that in several places where he had seen clear springs near the highways, he caused stakes to be fixed, with brass dishes hang-ing- at them, for the...
Page 15 - Accordingly they engaged with the enemy, who were come from the north to give battle, and obtained the victory ; which, being known at home in their own country, as also the fertility of the country, and the cowardice of the Britons, a more considerable fleet was quickly sent over, bringing a still greater number of men, which, being added to the former, made up an invincible army. The...
Page 101 - England that there were very few on this side of the Humber who could understand their rituals in English or translate a letter from Latin into English ; and I believe there were not many beyond the Humber.
Page 102 - They did not think that men would ever be so careless, and that learning would so decay; through that desire they abstained from it, since they wished that the wisdom in this land might increase with our knowledge of languages." Then I remembered how the law was first known in Hebrew, and again, when the Greeks had learned it, they translated the whole of it into their own language, and all other books besides. And again the Romans...
Page 30 - He therefore ag-ain asked, what was the name of that nation? and was answered, that they were called Angles. "Right," said he, for they have an Angelic face, and it becomes such to be co-heirs with the Angels in heaven. What is the name," proceeded he, "of the province from which they a.re brought?
Page 39 - His course of life was so different from the slothfulness of our times, that all those who bore him company, whether they were shorn monks or laymen, were employed in meditation, that is, either in reading the Scriptures or learning psalms. This was the daily employment of himself and all that were with him wheresoever they went...
Page 155 - Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to...