 | William (of Malmesbury) - Civilization, Medieval - 1847 - 582 pages
...astonishment. The monks mocked ^ the_.rIIle_ojL their order by fine vestments^" and the use of "every_kin.d of food. The nobility, given up to luxury and wantonness,...a careless manner, . heard matins and masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers, amid the blandishments of their wives. The commonalty, left unprotected,... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury.) - 1854 - 482 pages
...person who understood grammar was an object of wonder and astonishment.1 The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments, and the use of every...went not to church in the morning after the manner learnii could understand tne common service 01 me cmircn, and ne Knew none soutn 01 the Thames who... | |
 | Great Britain - 1854 - 448 pages
...person who understood grammar was an object of wonder and astonishment.1 The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments, and the use of every...went not to church in the morning after the manner 1 See ยง 123. King Alfred, in his preface to Gregory's Pastoral, states that learning was BO decayed... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1857 - 852 pages
...person who understood grammar was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments, and the use of every...in a careless manner heard matins and masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers. The commonalty, left unprotected, became a prey to the most powerful,... | |
 | English essays - 1857 - 754 pages
...who understood grammar was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the nile of tlieir order by fine vestments, and the use of every kind...in a careless manner heard matins and masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers. The commonalty, left unprotected, became a prey to the most powerful,... | |
 | John Henry Parker - Architecture, Medieval - 1858 - 108 pages
...person who understood grammar was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments, and the use of every...in a careless manner heard matins and masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers. The commonalty, left unprotected, became a prey to the most powerful,... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury) - Great Britain - 1866 - 574 pages
...person who understood grammar, was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments, and the use of every...manner of Christians, but merely, in a careless manner, >j heard matins and masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers, amid the blandishments of their... | |
 | John of Fordun - 1872 - 582 pages
...time, for a good many years before the arrival of the Normans, the upper classes, given up to gluttony and wantonness, went not to church in the morning after the manner of Christians, but, in their chambers, and in the arms of their wives, barely listened to a priest who hurried through... | |
 | M. J. Guest - Great Britain - 1879 - 700 pages
...words of the sacrament, and a person who understood grammar was an object of wonder and astonishment. The nobility, given up to luxury and wantonness, went...in a careless manner heard matins and masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers." 6. The same writer speaks of the degrading slave-trade which... | |
 | William Maxwell Blackburn - Christianity - 1879 - 752 pages
...sacraments ; and a person who understood grammar was an object of wonder. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments, and the use of every kind of food. The nobles, given up to luxury and wantonness, went not to church in the morning according to the manner... | |
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The clergy, contented with a very slight degree of learning, could scarcely stammer out the words of the sacraments ; and a person who understood grammar, was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments,... 
