 | Saint Bede (the Venerable) - Abbots - 1723 - 584 pages
...to defend us from the haughty and fierce Enemy ; for he knows, that we have undertaken a juft IVar for the Safety of our Nation. All did as he had commanded, and N 2 acaccordingly advancing towards the Enemy with the nrft dawn of the Day, they obtain a the Victory,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Anglo-Saxons - 1823 - 636 pages
...the existing and the true, and unite to implore his protection against a fierce and arrogant enemy. He knows that we have undertaken a just war for the safety of our people." — The army obeyed the royal mandate. Lib. iii. c. 2. 33 Camden places this battle at Dilston,... | |
 | Robert Wake - Southwold (England) - 1839 - 464 pages
...existing and the true, and let us " unite to implore his protection against a fierce and arrogant " enemy. He knows that we have undertaken a just war " for the safety of our people." The cause which was piously committed to " the great and only Potentate," was decided, as... | |
 | Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1843 - 418 pages
...which it was to be fixed, the king himself, full of faith, laid hold of it and held it with both his hands, till it was set fast by throwing in the earth;...did as he had commanded, and accordingly advancing towards the enemy with the first dawn of day, they obtained the victory, as their faith deserved. In... | |
 | Priestess - 1846 - 324 pages
...the Existing and the True, and unite to implore His protection against a fierce and arrogant enemy. He knows that we have undertaken a just war for the safety of our people." The army, as if one man, obeyed the royal mandate. * " It is said that the crosse being made,... | |
 | Saint Bede (the Venerable) - Great Britain - 1849 - 566 pages
...king himself, full of faith, laid hold of it and held it with both his hands, till it was set fast hy throwing in the earth ; and this done, raising his...did as he had commanded, and accordingly advancing towards the enemy with the first dawn of day, they obtained the victory, as their faith deserved. In... | |
 | 1849 - 498 pages
...it, till it was set fast by throwing in the earth ; and this done, raising his voice, he cried aloud to his army, " Let us all kneel and jointly beseech...undertaken a just war for the safety of our nation." This place, where he won his victory, was hence called in the English tongue Heofonfeld, " the heavenly... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - Great Britain - 1851 - 594 pages
...living God Almighty, in his mercy, to defend us from the haughty and fierce enemy ; for He knows that wo have undertaken a just war for the safety of our nation.'...did as he had commanded, and accordingly advancing towards the enemy with the first dawn of day, they obtained the victory, as their faith deserved. In... | |
 | England - 1851 - 346 pages
...the existing and the true, and unite to implore His protection against a fierce and arrogant enemy. He knows that we have undertaken a just war for the safety of our people." The army all knelt, and prayed for protection. Oswald gained the victory on this occasion.... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Christian art and symbolism - 1852 - 540 pages
...in the earth. Then raising his voice, he cried, ' Let us all kneel down, and beseech the living God to defend us from the haughty and fierce enemy, for...undertaken a just war, for the safety of our nation.' Then they went against the enemy and obtained a victory as their faith deserved." This king Oswald... | |
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Let us all kneel, and jointly beseech the true and living God Almighty, in his mercy, to defend us from the haughty and fierce enemy; for He knows that we have undertaken a just war for the safety of our nation. 
