The History & Antiquities of Pudsey

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Longmans, Green, 1887 - Leeds (England) - 313 pages
 

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Page 241 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own } but they had all things common.
Page 242 - And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver : and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
Page 270 - And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. 42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
Page 204 - Oh evil was the root, and bitter was the fruit, And crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod; For we trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sate in the high places and slew the saints of God.
Page xii - He was content to do his own duty in that state of life in which it had pleased God to call him.
Page 111 - But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. He then said unto them, Why are ye troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands, and my feet ; that it is I myself. Handle me, and see : for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Page 45 - England, shall yearly have, take, enjoy, and perceive, united and knit to his imperial crown for ever, one yearly rent or pension amounting to the value of the tenth part of all the revenues, rents...
Page 5 - Perhaps the virtues and vices of the eleventh century, in their most striking form, and most conspicuous position, cannot be more adequately represented than by Dunstan, Canute, and Edward. It was a period of aspiring ecclesiastics and of savage rulers, — tinctured with some rudiments of the arts of war and government, where those who escaped atrocious crimes were too ignorant and base not to embrace superstition instead of religion. Dunstan was a zealous, and perhaps useful, reformer of religious...
Page 36 - Ihornour, her father, to hold, to them and their heirs for ever, of the chief lords of the fee, by the services therefore due, and of right accustomed...
Page 256 - My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the LORD ; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living GOD. 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest, where she may lay her young; even thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my GOD.

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