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 xv
... whilst others have improperly classed amongst them Alcuinus , afterwards preceptor to Charles the Great . Thus was the time of that excellent man employed in doing good to mankind , seldom or never moving beyond the limits of his own ...
... whilst others have improperly classed amongst them Alcuinus , afterwards preceptor to Charles the Great . Thus was the time of that excellent man employed in doing good to mankind , seldom or never moving beyond the limits of his own ...
Page xvi
... whilst other writers of the University of Oxford have been induced , by a corresponding jealousy , to deny the fact . The principal authority for this ill - supported statement is found in a volume called Liber Niger , preserved in the ...
... whilst other writers of the University of Oxford have been induced , by a corresponding jealousy , to deny the fact . The principal authority for this ill - supported statement is found in a volume called Liber Niger , preserved in the ...
Page xx
... whilst we read . In such joy we passed the days of Lent , till the aforesaid day ; and he re- joiced much , and gave God thanks , because he had been thought worthy to be so weakened . He often repeated , " That God scourgeth every son ...
... whilst we read . In such joy we passed the days of Lent , till the aforesaid day ; and he re- joiced much , and gave God thanks , because he had been thought worthy to be so weakened . He often repeated , " That God scourgeth every son ...
Page xxx
... whilst the dialect of the latter portion of the Chronicle approaches very nearly to our modern English , the early part of it bears the impress of times much more rude and ancient , and the language in which it is written is absolutely ...
... whilst the dialect of the latter portion of the Chronicle approaches very nearly to our modern English , the early part of it bears the impress of times much more rude and ancient , and the language in which it is written is absolutely ...
Page xlii
... whilst others commenced with the Annunciation ; a custom which became very prevalent in honour of the Virgin Mary , and was not formally abolished here till the year 1752 ; when the Gregorian calendar , commonly called the New Style ...
... whilst others commenced with the Annunciation ; a custom which became very prevalent in honour of the Virgin Mary , and was not formally abolished here till the year 1752 ; when the Gregorian calendar , commonly called the New Style ...
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