The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest, 2. köideLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1836 |
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... clergy . Their presence also compelled Alfred repeatedly into the martial field , and from these united causes his ardent thirst for knowledge re- mained ungratified , until the possession of the crown invested him with the wealth and ...
... clergy . Their presence also compelled Alfred repeatedly into the martial field , and from these united causes his ardent thirst for knowledge re- mained ungratified , until the possession of the crown invested him with the wealth and ...
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... clergy of St. David's expected that Alfred's friendship for Asser would preserve their patrimony from the depredations of Hemeid . " I was honourably received in the royal city of Leonaford , " says Asser , " and that time staid eight ...
... clergy of St. David's expected that Alfred's friendship for Asser would preserve their patrimony from the depredations of Hemeid . " I was honourably received in the royal city of Leonaford , " says Asser , " and that time staid eight ...
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... clergy to fulfil their duties ; and though it tends to make them too inquisitive into human actions , and would insensibly lead them to erect a tyranny over the human mind , incompatible with its improvement or its happiness ; yet , as ...
... clergy to fulfil their duties ; and though it tends to make them too inquisitive into human actions , and would insensibly lead them to erect a tyranny over the human mind , incompatible with its improvement or its happiness ; yet , as ...
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... clergy . The subjects are gory . chiefly the miracles stated to be performed in Italy by religious men . They display the pious feeling of the age , but these words comprise almost the whole of their merit ; for the piety is unhappily ...
... clergy . The subjects are gory . chiefly the miracles stated to be performed in Italy by religious men . They display the pious feeling of the age , but these words comprise almost the whole of their merit ; for the piety is unhappily ...
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... clergy . Pope Gregory was not more credulous in his religion than the Emperor Julian was in his paganism ; or Apuleius , and per- haps even Lucian , in common with his age , of witchcraft . Philostratus , Jamblichus , Porphyry ...
... clergy . Pope Gregory was not more credulous in his religion than the Emperor Julian was in his paganism ; or Apuleius , and per- haps even Lucian , in common with his age , of witchcraft . Philostratus , Jamblichus , Porphyry ...
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Æthelweard afterwards Alfred Alfred's ancient Anglo-Saxon Anlaf Armorica Asser Athelstan battle bishop Boet Boetius BOOK Bretagne brother called Canute Celto CHAP Christians Chron Cleop clergy Copt Cotton Library creatures Danes Danish death dignity Dunstan Eadmer earth Edgar Edmund Edred Edward Edward the Martyr Edwin enemies England English Eric Ethelfleda Ethelred Ethelred the Unready evil father Flor friends gave Hakon hast Hist honour Hoveden Ibid Ingulf Jomsburg king king of Norway king's kingdom Knytlinga Saga land Latin lived lord Malmsb Malmsbury Matt ment mentioned Mercia mind monastery monks moral nation noble Northmen Northumbria Norway nouns Olave Orosius Osberne prince quæ reign sailed Saxon Chronicle says shillings ships Snorre sovereign Svein thee thegns things thou tions translation Turketul verbs vikingr virtue Welsh West wisdom wise
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Page 425 - 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 425 - 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 426 - When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, Where have ye laid him?
Page 426 - And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well ? the old man of whom ye spake ; is he yet alive ? And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive : and they bowed down their heads and made obeisance.
Page 428 - Alone can rival, can succeed to thee. • How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot : Eternal sun-shine of the spotless mind ! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd ; Labour and rest, that equal periods keep ; ' Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep ;' Desires composed, affections ever even ; Tears that delight,' and sighs that waft to heav'n.
Page 426 - And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
Page 22 - O THOU, whose power o'er moving worlds presides ! Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides ! On darkling man, in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine.
Page 427 - God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love.
Page 426 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. — The rolling year Is full of thee.
Page 83 - 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