 | Great Britain - 1853 - 496 pages
...prudence was so great, that not only persons of the middle rank, but even kings and princes, sometimes asked and received her advice ; she obliged those who were under her direction to attend so much to the reading of the holy Scriptures, and to exercise themselves so much in works of justice, that many... | |
 | Bede (the venerable.) - 1853 - 488 pages
...prudence was so great, that not only persons of the middle rank, but even kings and princes, sometimes asked and received her advice ; she obliged those who were under her direction to attend so much to the reading of the holy Scriptures, and to exercise themselves so much in works of justice, that many... | |
 | John Blackburn - 1854 - 392 pages
...when her great-uncle king Edwin, by the preaching of Paulinus, obeyed the Gospel. This devoted woman " obliged those who were under her direction to attend...Scriptures, and to exercise themselves so much in works of righteousness, that they might be there found fit for ecclesiastical duties, and to serve at the altar."... | |
 | Guild of st. Alban - 1872 - 596 pages
...observance of justice, piety, chastity, and other virtues, and especially peace and charity. Her prudence was so great that not only indifferent persons but even kings and princes asked and received her advice. She obliged those who were under her direction to attend so much to... | |
 | Jane Williams - Authors - 1861 - 580 pages
...Tacitus,' Valpy's ed., vol. v., pp. 90-91. different persons, but even kings and princes, as occasions offered, asked and received her advice. She obliged those who were under her to attend so much to reading of the Holy Scriptures, and to exercise themselves so much in works of... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...prudence was so great, that not only pel-sons of the middle rank, but even kings and princes, sometimes asked and received her advice. She obliged those who were under her direction to attend so much to the reading of the Holy Scriptures, and to exercise themselves so much in works of justice, that many... | |
 | Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1881 - 608 pages
...was there rich, and none poor, all being in common to all, and none having any property. Her prudence was so great, that not only indifferent persons, but...direction to attend so much to reading of the Holy Scriptares, and to exercise themselves so much in works of justice, that many might be there found... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - Church history - 1894 - 580 pages
...died in 680, as abbess of the monastery of Streaneshalch, is thus described by Beda : " Her prudence was so great, that not only indifferent persons, but...who were under her direction to attend so much to the reading of the Holy Scriptures, and to exercise themselves so much in works of justice, that many... | |
 | Frances Arnold-Forster - Christian patron saints - 1899 - 558 pages
...and in this bent of his mind we may see the fruit of those quiet days at Whitby, when the abbess " obliged those who were under her direction to attend so much to reading of the Holy Scriptures." Half a century earlier the Lady Hilda had been at the court of her uncle Edwin, and there from the... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook, Chauncey Brewster Tinker - Literary Criticism - 1908 - 314 pages
...was there rich and none poor, all being in common to all, and none having any property. Her prudence was so great that not only indifferent persons, but...who were under her direction to attend so much to the reading of the Holy Scriptures, and to exercise themselves so much in works of righteousness, that... | |
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Her prudence was so great, that not only indifferent persons, but even kings and princes, as occasion offered, asked and received her advice... 
