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 vi
... light . The time of his birth has , however , been placed by some writers as late as A.D. 677 , but this error arose from not per- ceiving that the last two or three pages of his Chronological Epitome , attached to the Ecclesiastical ...
... light . The time of his birth has , however , been placed by some writers as late as A.D. 677 , but this error arose from not per- ceiving that the last two or three pages of his Chronological Epitome , attached to the Ecclesiastical ...
Page vii
... light . His words are these : " Britain , which some writers have called another world , because , from its lying at a distance , it has been over- looked by most geographers , contains in its remotest parts a place on the borders of ...
... light . His words are these : " Britain , which some writers have called another world , because , from its lying at a distance , it has been over- looked by most geographers , contains in its remotest parts a place on the borders of ...
Page xliv
... light of publication . It re- mains in the possession of the Master of the Rolls , a mighty storehouse of collations for all future editions of Gildas , Nennius , Bede , the Saxon Chronicle , Florence of Worcester , Henry of Huntingdon ...
... light of publication . It re- mains in the possession of the Master of the Rolls , a mighty storehouse of collations for all future editions of Gildas , Nennius , Bede , the Saxon Chronicle , Florence of Worcester , Henry of Huntingdon ...
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... light in summer , so that at midnight the beholders are often in doubt whether the even- ing twilight still continues , or that of the morning is coming on ; for the sun , in the night , returns under the earth , through the northern ...
... light in summer , so that at midnight the beholders are often in doubt whether the even- ing twilight still continues , or that of the morning is coming on ; for the sun , in the night , returns under the earth , through the northern ...
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... light yoke of Christ . In the meantime , on a sudden , a severe plague fell upon that corrupt generation , which soon destroyed such numbers of them , that the living were scarcely sufficient to bury the dead : yet , those that survived ...
... light yoke of Christ . In the meantime , on a sudden , a severe plague fell upon that corrupt generation , which soon destroyed such numbers of them , that the living were scarcely sufficient to bury the dead : yet , those that survived ...
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