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... refused to wear his crown again , because that honour belonged to God alone , the true Ruler of the world . Yet the story would not have been invented except of one who was believed to have been clothed with real humility . 12. The Sons ...
... refused to wear his crown again , because that honour belonged to God alone , the true Ruler of the world . Yet the story would not have been invented except of one who was believed to have been clothed with real humility . 12. The Sons ...
Page 87
... refused , and Eadward summoned him to Gloucester to account for his refusal . He came attended by an armed host , but Leofric and Siward , who were jealous of Godwine's power , came with their armed followers to support the king ...
... refused , and Eadward summoned him to Gloucester to account for his refusal . He came attended by an armed host , but Leofric and Siward , who were jealous of Godwine's power , came with their armed followers to support the king ...
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... refused to change their style of music that he called in Norman archers to shoot them down on the steps of the altar . Such brutality , however , was exceptional , and , as a rule , even Norman bishops and abbots were well disposed ...
... refused to change their style of music that he called in Norman archers to shoot them down on the steps of the altar . Such brutality , however , was exceptional , and , as a rule , even Norman bishops and abbots were well disposed ...
Page 108
... refused , on the ground that homage had never been ren- dered by his predecessors . To all this Gregory submitted . doubt Gregory was prudent in not provoking William's anger ; but that he should have refrained from even finding fault ...
... refused , on the ground that homage had never been ren- dered by his predecessors . To all this Gregory submitted . doubt Gregory was prudent in not provoking William's anger ; but that he should have refrained from even finding fault ...
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... refused to be crowned . " I will not , " he said , " wear a crown of gold where my Saviour wore a crown of thorns . " The piety of the Christian warriors was not accompanied by mercy to the vanquished . Holding Mohammedans to be the ...
... refused to be crowned . " I will not , " he said , " wear a crown of gold where my Saviour wore a crown of thorns . " The piety of the Christian warriors was not accompanied by mercy to the vanquished . Holding Mohammedans to be the ...
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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.