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Page 82
... refused to do so , lest he should have to wring money from the poor in order to pay it . The drunken Danes pelted him with bones till one of the number clave his skull with an axe . He was soon counted as a martyr . Long after- wards ...
... refused to do so , lest he should have to wring money from the poor in order to pay it . The drunken Danes pelted him with bones till one of the number clave his skull with an axe . He was soon counted as a martyr . Long after- wards ...
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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 true 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 true humility . 12. The Sons ...
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... 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 let him go till he had sworn solemnly , placing his hand on a chest which contained the relics of the most holy Norman saints , to do some act , the nature of which is diversely related , but which Harold never did ...
... refused to let him go till he had sworn solemnly , placing his hand on a chest which contained the relics of the most holy Norman saints , to do some act , the nature of which is diversely related , but which Harold never did ...
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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 ...
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Page 489 - 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 506 - 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, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your Majesty's pardon, that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your Majesty is pleased to demand of me.
Page 392 - 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 516 - 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 444 - 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.
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Page 40 - ... 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 427 - ... 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 599 - In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 516 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.