The venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical history of England, also the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, with notes, ed. by J.A. Giles |
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... west . Nero , succeeding Claudius in the empire , attempted nothing in martial affairs ; and , therefore , among other innumerable detriments brought upon the Roman state , he almost lost Britain ; for under him two most noble towns ...
... west . Nero , succeeding Claudius in the empire , attempted nothing in martial affairs ; and , therefore , among other innumerable detriments brought upon the Roman state , he almost lost Britain ; for under him two most noble towns ...
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... west , commanded the churches to be destroyed , and the Christians to be slain . This persecution was the tenth since the reign of Nero , and was more lasting and bloody than all the others before it ; for it was carried on incessantly ...
... west , commanded the churches to be destroyed , and the Christians to be slain . This persecution was the tenth since the reign of Nero , and was more lasting and bloody than all the others before it ; for it was carried on incessantly ...
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... west , and the Picts from the north . We call these foreign nations , not on account of their being seated out of ... Western , though they do not reach so as touch one nother . The eastern has in the midst of it the city Giudi . The ...
... west , and the Picts from the north . We call these foreign nations , not on account of their being seated out of ... Western , though they do not reach so as touch one nother . The eastern has in the midst of it the city Giudi . The ...
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... west , as is still visible to beholders . * This being finished , they gave that dispirited people good advice , with patterns to furnish them with arms . Besides , they built towers on the sea - coast to the southward , at proper ...
... west , as is still visible to beholders . * This being finished , they gave that dispirited people good advice , with patterns to furnish them with arms . Besides , they built towers on the sea - coast to the southward , at proper ...
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... West - Saxons who are to this day called Jutes , seated opposite to the Isle of Wight . From the Saxons , that is , the country which is now called Old Saxony , came the East - Saxons , the South - Saxons , and the West - Saxons . From ...
... West - Saxons who are to this day called Jutes , seated opposite to the Isle of Wight . From the Saxons , that is , the country which is now called Old Saxony , came the East - Saxons , the South - Saxons , and the West - Saxons . From ...
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Page 291 - Benedict, and afterwards by Ceolfrid ; and spending all the remaining time of my life in that monastery, I wholly applied myself to the study of Scripture, and amidst the observance of regular discipline, and the daily care of singing in the church, I always took delight in learning, teaching, and writing.
Page 82 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 42 - For things are not to be loved for the sake of places, but places for the sake of good things.
Page 165 - And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek : and his rest shall be glorious.
Page 165 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 48 - Not that which goeth into the mouth, defileth a man : but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Page 165 - And I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, To establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages ; That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth ; To them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves.
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Page 154 - All our forefathers, men beloved of God, are known to have kept it after the same manner ; and that the same may not seem to any contemptible or worthy to be rejected, it is the same which St. John the evangelist, the disciple beloved of our Lord, with all the Churches over which he presided, is recorded to have observed.