Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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Page 114
... bishop who acted as his wife's chaplain , but it is more probable that the coin was only copied by unskilful artizans , who could not make a device of their own . Doubt- less when in the ninth century Egbert , after making his supremacy ...
... bishop who acted as his wife's chaplain , but it is more probable that the coin was only copied by unskilful artizans , who could not make a device of their own . Doubt- less when in the ninth century Egbert , after making his supremacy ...
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... Bishop of Senlis ; and the old Roman - British Church of St. Martin , in Canterbury , had been assigned for the Christian worship . Ethelbert received Augustine's messengers courteously , and promised to give him the interview for which ...
... Bishop of Senlis ; and the old Roman - British Church of St. Martin , in Canterbury , had been assigned for the Christian worship . Ethelbert received Augustine's messengers courteously , and promised to give him the interview for which ...
Page 123
... bishops owed him obedience as having been put under his care by Pope Gregory . His chief demands were that they should follow the Roman time of keeping Easter , and that they should help in preaching to the English . The first meeting ...
... bishops owed him obedience as having been put under his care by Pope Gregory . His chief demands were that they should follow the Roman time of keeping Easter , and that they should help in preaching to the English . The first meeting ...
Page 124
... bishops refused to yield to his demands . " If he will not rise up to greet us , " they said , " how much more will he ... bishop . Mellitus , one of a company sent out by Gregory in 601 , to reinforce Augustine , was the first to occupy ...
... bishops refused to yield to his demands . " If he will not rise up to greet us , " they said , " how much more will he ... bishop . Mellitus , one of a company sent out by Gregory in 601 , to reinforce Augustine , was the first to occupy ...
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... bishop's seat at Dunwich , on the coast of Suffolk , then and afterwards a prosperous town with many churches , now reduced by the inroads of the sea to a petty village . It must not be supposed that the progress of Christianity went on ...
... bishop's seat at Dunwich , on the coast of Suffolk , then and afterwards a prosperous town with many churches , now reduced by the inroads of the sea to a petty village . It must not be supposed that the progress of Christianity went on ...
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Page 217 - But those things which I met with, either of the days of Ine my kinsman, or of Offa, king of the Mercians, or of Ethelbert, who first among the English race received baptism, those which seemed to me the rightest, those I have here gathered together, and rejected the others.
Page 158 - Go on quickly, I know not how long I shall hold out, and whether my Maker will not soon take me away.
Page 112 - Beda's list comprises Ella of Sussex, Ceawlin of Wessex, Ethelbert of Kent, Redwald of East Anglia, and Edwin, Oswald, and Oswy, of Northumbria. THE SAXON ERA.
Page 160 - Receive my head into your hands, for it is a great satisfaction to me to sit facing my holy place, where I was wont to pray, that I may also, sitting, call upon my Father ! And thus, on the pavement of his little cell, singing : ' Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost ; ' when he had named the Holy Ghost, he breathed his last, and so departed to the heavenly kingdom.
Page 157 - ... nights and days, From Heaven to Hell, where the Lord changed them all To Devils, because they his Deed and Word Refused to worship. Therefore in worse light Under the earth beneath, Almighty God Had placed them triumphless in the swart HelL There evening, immeasurably long, Brings to each fiend renewal of the fire; Then comes, at dawn, the east wind keen with frost Its dart, or fire continual, torment sharp, The punishment wrought for them they must bear.