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... accepted the proposal soon found himself unable to pay the debt , and was stripped of all that he possessed to satisfy the cravings of the lender . Those who resisted this oppression were treated as the meanest criminals . Boadicea ...
... accepted the proposal soon found himself unable to pay the debt , and was stripped of all that he possessed to satisfy the cravings of the lender . Those who resisted this oppression were treated as the meanest criminals . Boadicea ...
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... accepted , then peace was made and all thought of vengeance was at an end . At a later time , at all events after the arrival of the English in this country , charges of murder were brought before the hundred - moot whenever the alleged ...
... accepted , then peace was made and all thought of vengeance was at an end . At a later time , at all events after the arrival of the English in this country , charges of murder were brought before the hundred - moot whenever the alleged ...
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... accepted as king by all those which lay between the Tees and the Forth . His new kingdom was called Bernicia , and his principal fortress was on a rock by the sea at Bamborough . During the next fifty years he and his successors ...
... accepted as king by all those which lay between the Tees and the Forth . His new kingdom was called Bernicia , and his principal fortress was on a rock by the sea at Bamborough . During the next fifty years he and his successors ...
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... accepted in almost all the monasteries of Western Europe . The special feature of this rule was that it encouraged labour as well as prayer . It was a saying of Benedict himself that ' to labour is to pray . ' He did not mean that ...
... accepted in almost all the monasteries of Western Europe . The special feature of this rule was that it encouraged labour as well as prayer . It was a saying of Benedict himself that ' to labour is to pray . ' He did not mean that ...
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... accepted Christianity as to worship Christ amongst his other gods . 8. The Three Kingdoms opposed to the Welsh .-- Augustine's Church was weak , because it depended on the kings , and had not had time to root itself in the affections of ...
... accepted Christianity as to worship Christ amongst his other gods . 8. The Three Kingdoms opposed to the Welsh .-- Augustine's Church was weak , because it depended on the kings , and had not had time to root itself in the affections of ...
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Page 504 - 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, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Page 354 - I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and . „ swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Page 530 - 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 628 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the' golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 36 - ... and snow prevail abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, into the dark winter from which he had emerged. So this life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant. If, therefore, this new doctrine contains something more certain, it seems justly to deserve...
Page 458 - 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 559 - according to the ancient and fundamental laws of this kingdom, the Government is, and ought to be, by King, Lords, and Commons.
Page 439 - ... ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 873 - THAT, AND A' THAT. Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that ; The coward slave — we pass him by ! We dare be poor for a
Page 404 - 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.