The history of the Anglo-Saxons, 2. köideBaudry, 1840 |
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... possessing a literary friend , Asser , of Saint David's , who composed some biographical sketches of his great master's life and manners . His work is somewhat rude and incomplete : but it is estimable for its apparent candour and ...
... possessing a literary friend , Asser , of Saint David's , who composed some biographical sketches of his great master's life and manners . His work is somewhat rude and incomplete : but it is estimable for its apparent candour and ...
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... possessed it as a distinct property of their nature . It is difficult to conceive how much even church- miteracy of the men partook of the most gross ignorance of the times ; 66 clergy . Very few were they , " says Alfred , " on this ...
... possessed it as a distinct property of their nature . It is difficult to conceive how much even church- miteracy of the men partook of the most gross ignorance of the times ; 66 clergy . Very few were they , " says Alfred , " on this ...
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... possessed power of themselves , and were good from their own nature , they would then always cleave to those who work with them good , and not evil . " But there , where they be a good , then are they good through the goodness of the ...
... possessed power of themselves , and were good from their own nature , they would then always cleave to those who work with them good , and not evil . " But there , where they be a good , then are they good through the goodness of the ...
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... possessing burns fiercer than the fires of Ætna . Alas ! who was he that first dug up the weight of the covered gold and gems , desiring to be hid , —those precious dangers ? " Boet . lib . ii . met . 5 . ( 1 ) Alfred , p . 29 , 30 ...
... possessing burns fiercer than the fires of Ætna . Alas ! who was he that first dug up the weight of the covered gold and gems , desiring to be hid , —those precious dangers ? " Boet . lib . ii . met . 5 . ( 1 ) Alfred , p . 29 , 30 ...
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... possessed . His riches and his dignity would be with him ; but because wealth and power have no merit of their own , they abandon him ; and hence they have no natural good in themselves . Hence he loseth them , like a shadow or smoke ...
... possessed . His riches and his dignity would be with him ; but because wealth and power have no merit of their own , they abandon him ; and hence they have no natural good in themselves . Hence he loseth them , like a shadow or smoke ...
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Page 273 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 273 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 273 - And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? 28 And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive.
Page 260 - WORDS have been divided into nine classes: the article; the substantive, or noun; the pronoun; the adjective; the verb; the adverb; the preposition; the conjunction; and the interjection. UNDER these classes all the Saxon words may be arranged, although not with that scientific precision with which the classifications of natural history have been made. Mr. Tooke has asserted, that in all languages there are only two sorts of words necessary for the communication of our thoughts, and therefore only...
Page 54 - He was one of the first men in that country, yet he had not more than twenty horned cattle, and twenty sheep, and twenty swine, and the little that he ploughed he ploughed with horses. But their wealth consists for the most part in the rent paid them by the Fins. That rent is in skins of animals, and birds' feathers, and whalebone, and in ship-ropes made of whales
Page 15 - Hence, she loves nought else but thee. She has enough of every good in this present life, but she has despised it all for thee alone. She has shunned it all, because only she has not thee also. This one thing is now wanting to her. Thine absence makes her think that all which she possesses is nothing. Hence for thy love she is wasting, and full nigh dead with tears and sorrow.
Page 339 - I am not free.' [The Shepherd says:] 'In the first of the morning I drive my sheep to their pasture and stand over them, in heat and in cold with my dogs, lest the wolves...
Page 89 - Glastonbury, and it is recorded of him that he visited Rome seven times, was very learned, mild, religious, fond of singing ; " humble to all, affable in conversation, wise in transacting business, venerable in aspect, severe in countenance, moderate even in his walk, sincere, upright, calm, temperate, and charitable.
Page 34 - ... done ! How does it now appear to thee? How do wealth and power please thee, when they are never without fear, and difficulties, and anxieties? Thou knowest that every king would be without these, and yet have power if he might. But I know that he cannot : therefore I wonder why they glory in such power.
Page 144 - The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. This is what the daily experience of courts of justice teaches. When accounts of a transaction come from the mouths of different witnesses, it is seldom that it is not possible to pick out apparent or real inconsistencies between them. These inconsistencies are studiously displayed by an adverse pleader...