A Short History of the English PeopleMacmillan and Company, 1889 - 872 sider |
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... Church , the centre of the town life , the folk - mote within its walls , the low shed outside where mayor and bailiff administered justice , the bell above which rang out its answer to the tocsin of the gownsmen in St. Mary's , the ...
... Church , the centre of the town life , the folk - mote within its walls , the low shed outside where mayor and bailiff administered justice , the bell above which rang out its answer to the tocsin of the gownsmen in St. Mary's , the ...
Side 17
... church , the church of St. Martin , was given them for their worship . The marriage of Bertha was an opportunity which was at once seized by the bishop who at this time occupied the Roman See , and who is justly known as Gregory the ...
... church , the church of St. Martin , was given them for their worship . The marriage of Bertha was an opportunity which was at once seized by the bishop who at this time occupied the Roman See , and who is justly known as Gregory the ...
Side 23
... Church of Paulinus which nerved Oswald to this struggle for the Cross . Paulinus had fled from Northumbria at Eadwine's fall ; and the Roman Church in Kent shrank into inactivity before the heathen reaction . Its place in the conversion ...
... Church of Paulinus which nerved Oswald to this struggle for the Cross . Paulinus had fled from Northumbria at Eadwine's fall ; and the Roman Church in Kent shrank into inactivity before the heathen reaction . Its place in the conversion ...
Side 29
... Church might be pressed by the see of Canterbury , the real metropo- litan of the Church as it existed in the north of England was , the Abbot of Iona . But Oswiu's queen brought with her from Kent the loyalty of the Kentish church to ...
... Church might be pressed by the see of Canterbury , the real metropo- litan of the Church as it existed in the north of England was , the Abbot of Iona . But Oswiu's queen brought with her from Kent the loyalty of the Kentish church to ...
Side 30
... Church , the Celtic Church in its own Irish home took the clan system of the country as the basis of Church government . Tribal quarrels and ecclesiastical controversies became inextricably confounded ; and the clergy , robbed of all ...
... Church , the Celtic Church in its own Irish home took the clan system of the country as the basis of Church government . Tribal quarrels and ecclesiastical controversies became inextricably confounded ; and the clergy , robbed of all ...
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Side 759 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Side 347 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Side 419 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Side 578 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his Altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Side 445 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade...
Side 311 - Kingston, had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Side 505 - James the Sixth is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, nor a lord, nor a head, but a member.
Side 482 - ... and that your Majesty would also vouchsafe to declare, that the awards, doings, and proceedings to the prejudice of your people, in any of the premises, shall not be drawn hereafter into consequence or example : and that your Majesty would be also graciously pleased, for the further comfort and safety of your people, to declare your royal will and pleasure, that in the things aforesaid all your officers and ministers shall serve you, according to the laws and statutes of this realm, as they tender...
Side 737 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Side 532 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish ; his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour.