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" ... flowed from them rivers of knowledge to water the hearts of their hearers; and, together with the books of holy writ, they also taught them the arts of ecclesiastical poetry, astronomy, and arithmetic. A testimony of which is, that there are still... "
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy - Page 195
1893
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation: From the Coming of Julius ...

Saint Bede (the Venerable) - Abbots - 1723 - 584 pages
...Teftimony hereof is, that there are ftill living at this Day fome of their Scholars, who are as well vers'd in the Greek and Latin Tongues, as in their own in which they were born. Nor were there ever happier Times fince the £»glijb came into Britain, whilft their Kings being more...
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The History of the Anglo-Saxons, Comprising the History of England ..., Volume 3

Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1823 - 690 pages
...island enjoyed under their tuition, and mentions that some of their scholars were alive in his time, as well versed in the Greek and Latin tongues as in their own.' stance of the natural affinity of the human mind CHAP. for knowledge, and of the contagious sympathy...
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The History of the Anglo-Saxons: Comprising the History ..., Volume 3; Volume 93

Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1823 - 682 pages
...island enjoyed under their tuition, and mentions that some of their scholars were alive in his time, as well versed in the Greek and Latin tongues as in their own.6 AMONG the men to whom Anglo-Saxon literature was greatly indebted, Benedict, who founded the...
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The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 2

Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1841 - 636 pages
...island enjoyed under their tuition, and mentions that some of their scholars were alive in his time, as well versed in the Greek and Latin tongues as in their own / Nothing could be more fortunate for the Anglo-Saxon literature than the settlement of these men in...
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The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 2

Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1841 - 636 pages
...island enjoyed under their tuition, and mentions that some of their scholars were alive in his time, as well versed in the Greek and Latin tongues as in their own.f * Bede, iv. c. 1. — We have a curious specimen how the Anglo-Saxons pronounced Greek, in their...
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The complete works of the venerable Bede, accompanied by a new Engl. tr. of ...

Bede (the venerable.) - 1843 - 448 pages
...The Greek testimony of which is, that there are still living at this introduced. day some of their scholars, who are as well versed in the Greek and...tongues as in their own, in which they were born. Nor were there ever happier times since the English came into Britain ; for their kings being brave...
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The Complete Works of Venerable Bede: Ecclesiastical history

Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1843 - 452 pages
...The creek testimony of which is, that there are still living at this introduced. day some of their scholars, who are as well versed in the Greek and...tongues as in their own, in which they were born. Nor were there ever happier times since the English came into Britain ; for their kings being brave...
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Lives of eminent Anglo-Saxons, illustrating the dawn of Christianity ..., Part 1

Anglo-Saxons - 1850 - 200 pages
...hearts of their hearers — a proof of which is, that there are still living at this day some of their scholars, who are as well versed in the Greek and...tongues as in their own, in which they were born." William of Malmsbury calls the foreigners two scholars, who made the island, once the nurse of tyrants,...
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The History of the Anglo-Saxons: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 3

Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1852 - 682 pages
...island enjoyed under their tuition, and mentions that some of their scholars were alive in his time, as well versed in the Greek and Latin tongues as in their own.6 Among the men to whom Anglo-Saxon literature was greatly indebted, Benedict, who founded the...
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The Church Historians of England, Volume 1, Page 2

Great Britain - 1853 - 440 pages
...ecclesiastical arithmetic. A testimony of which is, that there are still living at this day some of their scholars, who are as well versed in the Greek and...tongues as in their own, in which they were born. Nor were there ever happier times since the Angles came into Britain ; for their kings, being very...
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