The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. With Illustrative Notes, a Map of Anglo-Saxon England and a General IndexG. Bell, 1887 - 515 pages |
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Page ix
... carried back with him the most valuable books and costly relics and works of art which could be pro- cured for money . This collection , which was , by his orders , preserved with peculiar care , received considerable augment- ations ...
... carried back with him the most valuable books and costly relics and works of art which could be pro- cured for money . This collection , which was , by his orders , preserved with peculiar care , received considerable augment- ations ...
Page xi
... carrying with them the bones of St. Cuthbert . This John is also better known by the name of John of Beverley , and is mentioned in high terms by Bede in his History . So remarkable a deviation from the general rule as the ordination of ...
... carrying with them the bones of St. Cuthbert . This John is also better known by the name of John of Beverley , and is mentioned in high terms by Bede in his History . So remarkable a deviation from the general rule as the ordination of ...
Page xiii
... carry arms , nor go to any fight , though some say that priests should carry weapons when necessity requires ; yet the servant of God ought not to go to any war or military exercise . Neither a wife nor a battle becomes them , if they ...
... carry arms , nor go to any fight , though some say that priests should carry weapons when necessity requires ; yet the servant of God ought not to go to any war or military exercise . Neither a wife nor a battle becomes them , if they ...
Page xlii
... carried back three years before the vulgar era , and commenced in different places at four different periods of the year ! But it is very remarkable that , whatever was the commencement of the year in the early part of the Saxon ...
... carried back three years before the vulgar era , and commenced in different places at four different periods of the year ! But it is very remarkable that , whatever was the commencement of the year in the early part of the Saxon ...
Page xliii
... for discriminating how far an rathor's text may be illustrated without being overlaid by various readings , and he carried his mode of arrangement to such extremities , mutilated and subdivided his authors tc SAXON CHRONICLE . xliu.
... for discriminating how far an rathor's text may be illustrated without being overlaid by various readings , and he carried his mode of arrangement to such extremities , mutilated and subdivided his authors tc SAXON CHRONICLE . xliu.
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