The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy. Tr., with notes, and the intr. of Guizot, by T. Forester, Volume 4

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Halaman xxxix - At the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century a great revival took place in art.
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Halaman 426 - FAULTS (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAxON VERSION OF OROSIUs. With literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAxON GRAMMAR and Glossary, by B.
Halaman 38 - Now, too, the water washed some of the crew overboard, and, entering the chinks, drowned others; when the boat having been launched, the young prince was received into it, and might certainly have been saved by reaching the shore, had not his illegitimate sister, the countess of Perche, now struggling with death in the larger vessel, implored her brother's assistance; shrieking out that he should not abandon her so barbarously. Touched with pity, he ordered the boat to return to the ship, that he...
Halaman 19 - It extends 800 miles in length towards the north, and is 200 miles in breadth, except where several promontories extend further in breadth, by which its compass is made to be 3675 miles.
Halaman 170 - The sweet chaunts of divine •worship, sounds which calm and gladden' the hearts of the faithful, suddenly ceased ; the laity were prohibited from entering the churches for the service of God, and the doors were kept locked ; the bells were no longer rung ; the bodies of the dead lay in corruption without burial, striking the beholders with fear and horror; the pleasures of marriage were forbidden to those who sought them ; and the solemn joys of the ecclesiastical ceremonies vanished in the general...
Halaman lxxxv - The manuscript is beautifully written in imitation of printing, and at first view you might deem it to have been written in Italy ; but I am inclined to think it was written in France or Flanders, in the printed character which, I believe, was common in the latter part of the fifteenth, and the first part of the sixteenth century, and of which I have several other specimens. A red rubricked running-title heads every leaf, and the headings of every book and chapter are rubricked, as well as the colophon...
Halaman 177 - With what anxiety was he devoui'ed when his nephew William, having obtained the earldom of Flanders, it seemed certain that he himself would lose his crown ! He was reckoned the most fortunate of kings, but, truly, he was the most miserable. Need I speak of Philip, king of France, and Lewis, his son, both of whom reigned in my time, whose god was their belly, and indeed a fatal enemy it was ; for such was their gluttony, that they became so fat as not to be able to support themselves. Philip died...

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