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... Clergy · 175 177 - 179 1163 . Conduct of Becket commendable , but less so than that of the King ; Constitutions of Clarendon Becket approves the Constitutions ; they are condemned by the Pope ; shameful Persecution of the Primate by the ...
... Clergy · 175 177 - 179 1163 . Conduct of Becket commendable , but less so than that of the King ; Constitutions of Clarendon Becket approves the Constitutions ; they are condemned by the Pope ; shameful Persecution of the Primate by the ...
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... clergy the necessity of study , kept alive the spirit of improvement , and trans- mitted to future generations the writings of the classics , and the remnants of profane and ecclesiastical history . " There can , indeed , be no doubt ...
... clergy the necessity of study , kept alive the spirit of improvement , and trans- mitted to future generations the writings of the classics , and the remnants of profane and ecclesiastical history . " There can , indeed , be no doubt ...
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... clergy were filled with students . Of this mental culture Augustine and his companions laid the foundation only : the structure was raised by the hands of St. Theodore and Adrian the abbot . Though Theodore was sixty - six on his eleva ...
... clergy were filled with students . Of this mental culture Augustine and his companions laid the foundation only : the structure was raised by the hands of St. Theodore and Adrian the abbot . Though Theodore was sixty - six on his eleva ...
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... clergy , diligence in watching over the wants of his flock , activity in all his other duties , charity towards the poor . He was equally distinguished for the zeal with which he multiplied religious foundations and procured their ...
... clergy , diligence in watching over the wants of his flock , activity in all his other duties , charity towards the poor . He was equally distinguished for the zeal with which he multiplied religious foundations and procured their ...
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... clergy and that this contempt was richly deserved , is evident from the mental sterility of the period , and from the acknowledgment of the Saxons themselves : : - : " Such was the general depravity , that the Norman conquest , if ...
... clergy and that this contempt was richly deserved , is evident from the mental sterility of the period , and from the acknowledgment of the Saxons themselves : : - : " Such was the general depravity , that the Norman conquest , if ...
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abbot Acta Sanctorum Alcuin Aldhelm ancient Anglo-Saxon Annales Anselm appears apud archbishop authority barons Becket Bede Beowulf biographer bishops Cædmon canons Canterbury celebrated century Christian church clergy Constitutions of Clarendon court crown death dignity doubt duty earth ecclesiastical enemies England English equally evidently excommunicated fact father favour Giraldus Giraldus Cambrensis Grendel Henry Henry's holy honour Hrothgar justice king king's knights labours Lanfranc learned less Lingard lord Merlin monarch monastery monks nature necnon Nennius never noble Norman observed opinions papal poem poet poetry pontiff pope prelates present priest primate prince quæ Ranulf de Broc reader received reign religion reply Roman Rome royal saints Sanctorum Saxon Scriptures secular sir Kay soon spirit temporal thee thing Thomæ Thomas à Becket thou tion translation Turner vassals Vita ejusdem Vortigern William of Malmesbury words writers Wycliffe
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Page 103 - Jesus saith unto her. Woman, what have I to do with thee ? mine hour is not yet come.
Page 104 - above measure, through the abundance of the revela" tions, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the " messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be ex
Page 117 - L, fifty; C, one hundred; D, five hundred ; M, one thousand.
Page 105 - Christ : whom having not seen, ye love ; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Page 104 - Verily verily I say unto you ; Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name ; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Page 96 - It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ;' and many other things from the Scripture, in which he admonished us to arouse ourselves from the sleep of the mind. He also recited something in our English language; for he was very learned in our songs; and, putting his thoughts into English verse, he spoke it with compunction.
Page 72 - And grease to smear hem all about : He weeneth to live hem to wear : But, by my soul I dare well swear, His wretched life he shall for-let,
Page 346 - Lenten ys come with love to toune, With blosmen ant with briddes roune, That al this blisse bryngeth : Dayes-eyes in this dales; Notes suete of nyhtegales; 5 Uch foul song singeth.
Page 15 - Having received which answer, Bcdc tells us, he began immediately to sing, in praise of God the Creator, verses of which this is the sense: "Now we ought to praise the Author of the heavenly kingdom, the power of the Creator and his counsel, the deeds of the Father of glory : how he, though the eternal God, became the Author of all marvels ; omnipotent Guardian, who created for the sons of men, first heaven for their roof, and then the earth.
Page 62 - ... the close of the tenth, or the beginning of the eleventh century.