The History of the Manners, Landed Property, Government, Laws, Poetry, Literature, Religion, and Language, of the Anglo-SaxonsLongman, 1805 - 520 Seiten |
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... left in obfcurity , let it be recollected that nearly eight hundred years have paffed away fince the period at which this history terminates . B No K oo R CHA P I. 1 . I. in its literature ; and our narrative must cient.
... left in obfcurity , let it be recollected that nearly eight hundred years have paffed away fince the period at which this history terminates . B No K oo R CHA P I. 1 . I. in its literature ; and our narrative must cient.
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... eight cities and fome caftles , with houses , walls , gates , and towers ' ; and from the ruins of Caerlleon , as they continued even to the twelfth century , when they were seen by Giraldus , we may form fome notion of the interior im ...
... eight cities and fome caftles , with houses , walls , gates , and towers ' ; and from the ruins of Caerlleon , as they continued even to the twelfth century , when they were seen by Giraldus , we may form fome notion of the interior im ...
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... eight years old , is tranflated by Alfred " was eahta " wintra cniht " . " A king alfo mentions of a circumstance , that he faw it cniht wefende , being a cniht , or while a boy 2. It will be confidered in another place how far the term ...
... eight years old , is tranflated by Alfred " was eahta " wintra cniht " . " A king alfo mentions of a circumstance , that he faw it cniht wefende , being a cniht , or while a boy 2. It will be confidered in another place how far the term ...
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... eight pounds were to be the compenfation ; and if the homicide did not pay it , all the gildship were to avenge their member , and to fupport the confequences : if one did it , all were to bear alike . If any of the gild killed any ...
... eight pounds were to be the compenfation ; and if the homicide did not pay it , all the gildship were to avenge their member , and to fupport the confequences : if one did it , all were to bear alike . If any of the gild killed any ...
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... 265. So p . 249 . 6 Wilk . p . 66 , and 126. Yet this paffage is not decifive , because the other accompanying valuations do not corref- pond . 7 Ibid . 35 . BOOK Du Frefne ; it is stated to be eight OF THE ANGLO - SAXONS . 155.
... 265. So p . 249 . 6 Wilk . p . 66 , and 126. Yet this paffage is not decifive , because the other accompanying valuations do not corref- pond . 7 Ibid . 35 . BOOK Du Frefne ; it is stated to be eight OF THE ANGLO - SAXONS . 155.
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Seite 516 - When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.
Seite 519 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet, that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert, that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Seite 516 - And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? is he yet alive? And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive.
Seite 518 - It is a sackposset, wherein the deeper you go you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider because it is attended with an egg. But then...
Seite 516 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Seite 515 - Of grateful evening mild ; then filent night With this her folemn bird, and this fair moon, And thefe the gems of Heav'n, her ftarry train : But neither breath of morn, when me afcends With charm of earlieft...
Seite 516 - And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me ? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
Seite 474 - Take the herb datulus or titulosa, which we call greata crauleac (tuberose isis). Take the heads of it, and dry them very much, and take thereof a pennyweight and a half, and the pear-tree and roman bark, and cummin, and a fourth part of laurel-berries, and of the other herbs half a pennyweight of each, and six pepper-corns, and grind all to dust, and put two egg-shells full of wine. This is true leechcraft. Give it to the man to drink till he be well.
Seite 433 - 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.
Seite 258 - Prince, and prosper the works of his hand. With his horn, as the horn of the rhinoceros, may he blow the waters to the extremities of the earth; and may He who has ascended to the skies be his aid for ever! " Then Hilda stretched forth her hand to lead Edith from the place. But Edith shook her head and murmured: