Lives of the Cambro British Saints: Of the Fifth and Immediate Succeeding Centuries, from Ancient Welsh & Latin Mss. in the British Museum and Elsewhere, with English Translations and Explanatory Notes

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W. Rees, 1853 - Saints - 656 pages
 

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Page 307 - And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
Page 347 - These sounds he hearing, immediately compelled them to go aboard a ship, and sail back to recover their book ; and, burning with anger, said, ' Go, not to return !' Then his disciples, by the command of their master, without delay quickly went aboard a boat, and by sailing got to the said island. Having obtained the aforesaid volume, they soon in their passage returned to the middle of the sea, and were seen at a distance by the man of God sitting on the top of a hill in Barry ; when the boat unexpectedly...
Page 16 - Ego autem dico vobis: Diligite inimicos vestros, benefacite his qui oderunt vos, et orate pro persequentibus et calumniantibus vos...
Page 291 - Beino we catch a glimpse of the chasm that parted the two races at this period. Beino had settled with some monkish followers in a solitary retreat in the west of our Herefordshire. " And on a certain day, as Beino was travelling near the river Severn, where was a ford, lo ! he heard a voice on the other side of the river, inciting dogs to hunt a hare ; the voice being that of a Saxon who spoke as loud as he could ' Cirgia ' (charge), which in that language incited the dogs.
Page 366 - Glory is a strange thing to men that are on this side of heaven ; it is that which eye hath not seen nor ear heard, nor hath entered into the heart of man...
Page 339 - But as he considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, 'Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.
Page 176 - Ecce dabit voci sue vocem virtutis : date gloriam deo super israel magnificentia ejus et virtus ejus in nubibus. Mirabilis deus in sanctis suis : deus israel ipse dabit virtutem et fortitudinem plebi sue benedictus deus.2 An.

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