The Venerable Bede's Ecclasiatical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon chronicleBell & Daldy, 1894 - 515 pages |
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Page 76
... king of Kent , having most gloriously governed his temporal kingdom fifty- six years , entered into the eternal joys of the kingdom which is heavenly . He was the third of the English kings that had the sovereignty * of all the southern ...
... king of Kent , having most gloriously governed his temporal kingdom fifty- six years , entered into the eternal joys of the kingdom which is heavenly . He was the third of the English kings that had the sovereignty * of all the southern ...
Page 83
... king , being allied to the kings of Kent , hav- ing taken to wife Ethelberga , otherwise called Tate , daughter to King Ethelbert . He having by his ambassadors asked her in marriage of her brother Eadbald , who then reigned in Kent ...
... king , being allied to the kings of Kent , hav- ing taken to wife Ethelberga , otherwise called Tate , daughter to King Ethelbert . He having by his ambassadors asked her in marriage of her brother Eadbald , who then reigned in Kent ...
Page 84
... king ; which Lilla , the king's beloved minister , observing , having no buckler at hand to secure the king from death , interposed his own body to receive the stroke ; but the wretch struck so home , that he wounded the king through ...
... king ; which Lilla , the king's beloved minister , observing , having no buckler at hand to secure the king from death , interposed his own body to receive the stroke ; but the wretch struck so home , that he wounded the king through ...
Page 91
... king of the Angles , * was of no little use in urging him to embrace and understand the doctrines of salvation . Paulinus , there- fore , perceiving that it was a very difficult task to incline the king's lofty mind to the humility of ...
... king of the Angles , * was of no little use in urging him to embrace and understand the doctrines of salvation . Paulinus , there- fore , perceiving that it was a very difficult task to incline the king's lofty mind to the humility of ...
Page 95
... king's chief men , approving of his words and exhortations , presently added : " The present life of man , O king , seems to me , in comparison of that time which is unknown to us , like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room ...
... king's chief men , approving of his words and exhortations , presently added : " The present life of man , O king , seems to me , in comparison of that time which is unknown to us , like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room ...
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