The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy. Tr., with notes, and the intr. of Guizot, by T. Forester, 3. cilt

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Sayfa 43 - Paul, the apostle said to the Corinthians: ' 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.'' So the Lord has ordained that those who preach the gospel should live by the gospel. As for us, we belong to the clergy by our order and office, and we
Sayfa 47 - softened by the Italians into Val-ombrosa, a name very significant of its delightful situation among the forests which clothe the base of the Appennines. Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the
Sayfa 188 - with his 1 A very common phrase in the book of Chronicles, applied both to good and wicked kings. The reference here is probably to 2 Chron. xxxiii. 22, He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.
Sayfa 253 - his usual menacing and insolent gestures, looking contemptuously on the standers-by and gnaw the legs and arms of Jesus Christ on the crucifix. The image bore this foi a time, but at length struck the king with its foot in such
Sayfa 253 - manner that he fell backwards. Then such volumes of flame burst from his mouth that the smoke darkened the sky. Robert Fitzhamon thought it right to tell this dream to the king, who heard it with shouts of laughter; " He is a monk," he exclaimed, " and dreams for money ; give him a hundred pence.
Sayfa 371 - attemped to charge Ranulf's division, the troops were thronged so closely, and their weapons so locked together that it was out of their power to injure each other, and both parties in turn attempted in vain to break the impenetrable
Sayfa 232 - He arrived almost unattended at the sea coast. The sky at that time was overcast, the wind contrary, and a tempest swept the surface of the deep. When he determined to embark instantly, the mariners besought him to wait till the storm should abate and the wind be favourable, ' I have never heard," said William,' of a king perishing by shipwreck. No
Sayfa 17 - large territory. Thus David's dominions were augmented, and his power was greater than that of any of his predecessors, while by his care Scotland became distinguished for the number of devout and learned men it possessed. I have somewhat prolonged this digression in consideration that the Scots adhered to the catholic
Sayfa 18 - soldiers for battle, than to teach cowled clerks in the chants of the church. He was therefore often engaged in the conflicts against the English and Danes, and when the enemy was subdued obtained vast possessions, which at his death he bequeathed to his nephew Robert, earl of Northumberland. 1
Sayfa 253 - d to Robert Fitzhamon a still more frightful dream, in which he saw William Rufus come into a church with his usual menacing and insolent gestures, looking contemptuously on the standers-by and gnaw the legs and arms of Jesus Christ on the crucifix. The image bore this foi a time, but at length struck the king with its foot in such

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