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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... thegns , who had been illiterate all their lives , were compelled by his wife severity to learn in their mature age , that they might not discharge their duties with fuch fhameful infufficiency . It is mentioned on this occafion , that ...
... thegns , who had been illiterate all their lives , were compelled by his wife severity to learn in their mature age , that they might not discharge their duties with fuch fhameful infufficiency . It is mentioned on this occafion , that ...
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... Sax . 112 . Ibid . 71 . 13 9 Ibid . 70 . II Hift . Elienf . 12 Wilk . Leg . Sax . 25. 33 . 13 Ibid . 64. and 3 Gale , 423 . 3 Gale Scrip . 513 . IX . thegn 14. But though property might confer dif- 122 1 HISTORY OF THE MANNERS , & c .
... Sax . 112 . Ibid . 71 . 13 9 Ibid . 70 . II Hift . Elienf . 12 Wilk . Leg . Sax . 25. 33 . 13 Ibid . 64. and 3 Gale , 423 . 3 Gale Scrip . 513 . IX . thegn 14. But though property might confer dif- 122 1 HISTORY OF THE MANNERS , & c .
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Sharon Turner. IX . thegn 14. But though property might confer dif- c HA P. tinction , yet it was the poffeffion of landed pro- perty which raised a man to thofe titles which might be called ennobling . Hence it is mentioned , that ...
Sharon Turner. IX . thegn 14. But though property might confer dif- c HA P. tinction , yet it was the poffeffion of landed pro- perty which raised a man to thofe titles which might be called ennobling . Hence it is mentioned , that ...
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... thegn is threatened with the perpetual lofs of his thegen- ship for an unjust judgment , unless he prove by oath that he knew not how to give a better decifion . But the king in this cafe alfo had the option of restoring him 20. In the ...
... thegn is threatened with the perpetual lofs of his thegen- ship for an unjust judgment , unless he prove by oath that he knew not how to give a better decifion . But the king in this cafe alfo had the option of restoring him 20. In the ...
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... thegns at Cambridge . By this every member was to take an oath of true fidelity to each other , and the gild was always to affift him who had the moft juft claim . If any of the gild died , all the gild - fcipe was to carry him wherever ...
... thegns at Cambridge . By this every member was to take an oath of true fidelity to each other , and the gild was always to affift him who had the moft juft claim . If any of the gild died , all the gild - fcipe was to carry him wherever ...
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Beliebte Passagen
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: