The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Volume 3

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Pagina 362 - God uncovered? doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? but if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
Pagina 362 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Pagina 45 - Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar ? Even so hath the Lord ordained, that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Pagina 49 - His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower...
Pagina 41 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shall stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Pagina 263 - Being in great spirits, he was joking with his attendants while his boots were being laced, when an armourer came and presented to him six arrows. The king immediately took them with great satisfaction, praising the work, and, unconscious of what was to happen, kept four of them himself, and held out the other two to Walter Tirel. ' It is but right,' he said,' that the sharpest arrows should be given to him who knows best how to inflict mortal wounds with them.
Pagina 380 - Jerusalem, his terrible onset repulsed the royal army. 'William. earl of Morton, also attacking it from point to point, threw it into confusion. The king and the duke, with great part of their troops, fought on foot, that they might make a determined stand; but the Breton knights bore down on the flank of the duke's force, which, unable to sustain the shock, was presently routed.
Pagina 262 - On being informed of this the venerable Abbot Serlo wrote letters, which he despatched in a friendly spirit from Gloucester, informing the king very distinctly of all that the monk had seen in his vision. ' Fulchered, a zealous monk, and an eloquent expositor of the Holy Scriptures, about this time, in the kalends of August, spoke prophetically of this matter.
Pagina 214 - The king is on the waves ! The storm he boldly braves. His ocean steed, -With winged speed, O'er the white-flashing surges, To England's coast he urges ; And there he stays the winter o'er : More gallant king ne'er trod that shore.
Pagina 263 - ... them a long distance. Does he think that I follow the example of the English, who will defer their journey or their business on account of the dreams of a parcel of wheezing old women?

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