The English. (Conversion of the West).Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1878 - 186 pages |
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Page 96 - Praised be my Lord for our sister, the death of the body, from which no man escapeth.
Page 27 - We beseech thee, O Lord, in all thy mercy, that thy anger and wrath be turned away from this city, and from thy holy house, because we have sinned. Hallelujah.
Page 62 - The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle ; Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice every day, The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace.
Page 116 - ... was guarded by a great fortress which occupied the spot now called Pevensey, the future landing-place of the Norman conqueror. The fall of this fortress of Anderida in 491 established the kingdom of the South-Saxons; "^Elle and Cissa," ran the pitiless record of the conquerors, " beset Anderida, and slew all that were therein, nor was there afterwards one Briton left.
Page 132 - His main claim to distinction is that 'he was the first Englishman who cultivated classical learning with any success, and the first of whom any literary remains are preserved'*.
Page 5 - War was no sooner over than the warrior settled down into the farmer, and the home of the peasant churl rose beside the heap of goblinhaunted stones that marked the site of the villa he had burned.
Page 135 - Caedmon's poetry was their bible, no doubt far more effective in awakening and changing the popular mind than a literal translation of the Scriptures could have been.
Page 63 - He was accustomed not only to teach the people committed to his charge in church, but also, feeling for the weakness of a newborn faith, to wander round the provinces, to go into the houses of the faithful, and to sow the seeds of God's word in their hearts, according to the capacity of each.
Page 45 - ... several women who were stationed behind a curtain, I observed a man passing to and fro before the door and watching my actions. When my duty was over, I asked the beadle who the man was, and what he wanted ; and he replied with a smile, that he was a heathen but lately married to a Christian, who had stipulated that she should be allowed the free exercise of her religion. On the preceding day she had told him, that in the morning she would come to Atso-koong-foo, which means " to do the business,"...