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... least in its larger part , follow the fictions of those , or rather of succeeding , ages . But of Diana more below . The Diocletian , or rather Galerian , persecution raged chiefly in the East , and in the West at Rome . Remote Britain ...
... least in its larger part , follow the fictions of those , or rather of succeeding , ages . But of Diana more below . The Diocletian , or rather Galerian , persecution raged chiefly in the East , and in the West at Rome . Remote Britain ...
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... least in the southern and eastern parts of the island . Of this Chris- tianity there are only very dim , and obscure , and doubtful reminiscences . My predecessor , Dean Radulph de Diceto , asserts that in the pre - Saxon times , one of ...
... least in the southern and eastern parts of the island . Of this Chris- tianity there are only very dim , and obscure , and doubtful reminiscences . My predecessor , Dean Radulph de Diceto , asserts that in the pre - Saxon times , one of ...
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... least at the time when the legend was composed ) were equally alive to the sacred interest of their church , equally determined to possess the body of their Bishop . The population of London poured forth ; they seized the bier , and ...
... least at the time when the legend was composed ) were equally alive to the sacred interest of their church , equally determined to possess the body of their Bishop . The population of London poured forth ; they seized the bier , and ...
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... least by those from Bec . The Council descended to lower matters . No bones of animals were to be hung up ( to avert cattle plague ) ; all sortileges , auspices , divinations , and other works of the devil , were forbidden under penalty ...
... least by those from Bec . The Council descended to lower matters . No bones of animals were to be hung up ( to avert cattle plague ) ; all sortileges , auspices , divinations , and other works of the devil , were forbidden under penalty ...
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... least the wives , assuredly the hearth- warmers , of the Canons of S. Paul's . On one of the great events , witnessed by the Cathedral , as Diceto describes it with other chroniclers , " on the 8th October , 1191 ( King Richard was in ...
... least the wives , assuredly the hearth- warmers , of the Canons of S. Paul's . On one of the great events , witnessed by the Cathedral , as Diceto describes it with other chroniclers , " on the 8th October , 1191 ( King Richard was in ...
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Page 524 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 484 - By the festal cities blaze, Whilst the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore.
Page 459 - The difficulties and discouragements which attend the Study of the Scriptures, in the way of private judgment...
Page 467 - And do you reproach me with my education in this place, and with my relation to this most respectable body, which I shall always esteem my greatest advantage and my highest honour?
Page 367 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame ! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children...
Page 287 - The noise in it is like that of bees, a strange humming or buzz mixed of walking tongues and feet: it is a kind of still roar or loud whisper. It is the great exchange of all discourse, and no business whatsoever but is here stirring and a-foot.
Page 326 - I calmly beg: but by thy father's wrath, By all pains, which want and divorcement hath, I conjure thee, and all the oaths which I And thou have sworn to seal joint constancy, Here I unswear, and overswear them thus, Thou shalt not love by ways so dangerous.
Page 326 - BY our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue, By our long starving hopes, by that remorse Which my words...
Page 466 - I was educated," says Bishop Lowth, "in the University of Oxford. I enjoyed all the advantages, both public and private, which that famous seat of learning so largely affords. I spent many years in that illustrious society, in a well-regulated course of useful discipline and studies, and in the agreeable and improving commerce of gentlemen and...
Page 365 - We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side of the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it.