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... brought before the hundred - moot whenever the alleged mur- derer and his victim lived in the same hundred . If the accused person did not dispute the fact the moot sentenced him to pay a weregild , the amount of which differed in ...
... brought before the hundred - moot whenever the alleged mur- derer and his victim lived in the same hundred . If the accused person did not dispute the fact the moot sentenced him to pay a weregild , the amount of which differed in ...
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... brought by Augustine was very hard to learn . If Augustine had expected the whole English population to forsake entirely its evil ways and to walk in paths of peace , he would probably have been rejected at once . It was perhaps be ...
... brought by Augustine was very hard to learn . If Augustine had expected the whole English population to forsake entirely its evil ways and to walk in paths of peace , he would probably have been rejected at once . It was perhaps be ...
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... brought the East Angles and the kingdoms of central England to submit to his over - lordship , and he hoped to make himself over - lord of the south as well , and thus to reduce all England to dependence on himself . In 625 he planned ...
... brought the East Angles and the kingdoms of central England to submit to his over - lordship , and he hoped to make himself over - lord of the south as well , and thus to reduce all England to dependence on himself . In 625 he planned ...
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... brought at first not peace but the sword . The old heathenism glorified force and valour , and the new religion was contemptible in the eyes of the fiercest warriors . The supremacy of Eadwine was shaken . The men of East Anglia slew ...
... brought at first not peace but the sword . The old heathenism glorified force and valour , and the new religion was contemptible in the eyes of the fiercest warriors . The supremacy of Eadwine was shaken . The men of East Anglia slew ...
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... brought Picts as well as Scots under the influence of Christianity . Oswald now requested its abbot , the suc- cessor of Columba , to send a missionary to preach the faith to the men of North - humberland in the place of Paulinus , who ...
... brought Picts as well as Scots under the influence of Christianity . Oswald now requested its abbot , the suc- cessor of Columba , to send a missionary to preach the faith to the men of North - humberland in the place of Paulinus , who ...
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Page 519 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 418 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
Page 536 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Page 472 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 546 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 520 - A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal.
Page 623 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 574 - Thy instruments, to depend more upon Thyself. Pardon such as desire to trample upon the dust of a poor worm, for they are Thy People too. And pardon the folly of this short Prayer: — Even for Jesus Christ's sake. And give us a good night, if it be Thy pleasure. Amen.
Page 540 - are most of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality; do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour and courage and resolution in them...
Page 540 - You must get men of a spirit, and take it not ill what I say — I know you will not — of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go, or else you will be beaten still.