The Venerable Bede's Ecclasiatical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon chronicleBell & Daldy, 1894 - 515 pages |
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Page vii
... whole of this territory , lying along the coast near the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear , was granted to abbat Benedict by king Egfrid two years after the birth of Bede . William of Malmesbury points out more minutely the spot where ...
... whole of this territory , lying along the coast near the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear , was granted to abbat Benedict by king Egfrid two years after the birth of Bede . William of Malmesbury points out more minutely the spot where ...
Page viii
... whole of the southern part of Scotland . The piety of Eg . frid induced him to grant the large tract of land above men- tioned to one Biscop , surnamed Benedict , who had formerly been one of his thanes , but now became a monk , and ...
... whole of the southern part of Scotland . The piety of Eg . frid induced him to grant the large tract of land above men- tioned to one Biscop , surnamed Benedict , who had formerly been one of his thanes , but now became a monk , and ...
Page xi
... whole attention to the study of the Holy Scriptures , and in the intervals be- tween the hours of regular discipline and the duties of singing in the church , I always took pleasure in learning , or teaching , or writing something ...
... whole attention to the study of the Holy Scriptures , and in the intervals be- tween the hours of regular discipline and the duties of singing in the church , I always took pleasure in learning , or teaching , or writing something ...
Page xii
... whole of his time to his favourite occupations . His em- ployment was to say mass in the church , by which we are to understand that he officiated at the various masses which were performed at different hours in the day , besides ...
... whole of his time to his favourite occupations . His em- ployment was to say mass in the church , by which we are to understand that he officiated at the various masses which were performed at different hours in the day , besides ...
Page xv
... whole world , and dispensing to it the gifts entrusted to him ; it seems not a little surprising , that one who had scarcely moved away from the place of his nativity , should so accurately describe those at a distance ; and this ...
... whole world , and dispensing to it the gifts entrusted to him ; it seems not a little surprising , that one who had scarcely moved away from the place of his nativity , should so accurately describe those at a distance ; and this ...
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