William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England: From the Earliest Period to the Reign of King StephenH.G. Bohn, 1862 - 544 pages |
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Page 371 - Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Page 257 - ... asked when the maiden had been bled? and being told that it was on the fourth day of the moon, said, ' You did very indiscreetly and unskilfully to bleed her on the fourth day of the moon...
Page 222 - ... that he might be more easily received by the saints into heaven. The same thing, about the same time, was done through the zeal of many of the English nation, noble and ignoble, laity and clergy, men and women.
Page 83 - Christianity, and young children were baptised, it might have been anticipated that these superstitions would have been abandoned ; but in this, as in other things, there was a compromise between Christianity and paganism. Baptism was universally adopted, but it was regarded as a species of incantation, whereby a holy spirit was moved to protect a child from evil ones, and not as a sacrament whereby it was made a member of Christ and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.3 1 Ecgb.
Page 275 - Having finished their repast they proceed completely armed to the despatch of business, and frequently to a convivial meeting. To devote both day and night to deep drinking is a disgrace to no man. Disputes, as will be the case with people in liquor, .frequently arise, and are seldom confined to opprobrious language. The quarrel generally ends in a scene of blood.
Page 98 - may you live as long as you have lived, and as much more, and thrice as much as all this, and if God give you one year in addition to the others, you will be just a century old.
Page 307 - s eorls ; of the army countless, shipmen and Scots. There was made flee the north-men's chieftain, by need constrained, to the ship's prow with a little band. The bark drove afloat : the king departed on the fallow flood, his life preserved.
Page 112 - There is a seaport town, called Bristol, opposite to Ireland, into which its inhabitants make frequent voyages on account of trade. Wulfstan cured the people of this town of a most odious and inveterate custom, which they derived from their ancestors, of buying men and women in all parts of England, and exporting them to Ireland for the sake of gain. The young women they commonly got with child, and carried them to market in their pregnancy, that they might bring a better price. You might have seen,...
Page 39 - I N. take thee M. to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance: and thereto I give thee my faith.
Page 275 - If the kings and bishops thus judged unjustly, what could be expected from the petty reeves who administered justice (?) to the humbler classes ? It is clear that nothing like honesty in its administration could have existed ; but whether the dishonesty arose from a wicked determination to do what was known to be wrong, or from an ignorance of what honesty dictates, is a point on which there may be a difference of opinion. SECTION II. — TEMPERANCE. A marshy land and a cold damp climate seem to...