 | 1854 - 452 pages
...multitudes of bishops, hermits, and abbots? Does not the whole island blaze with such numerous reliques of its natives, that you can scarcely pass a village...consequence but you hear the name of some new saint ? And of how many have all notices perished through the want of records ? Nevertheless, in process... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury.) - 1854 - 482 pages
...order that they might exhaust their treasures on the poor, or divide them amongst monasteries. What shall I say of the multitudes of bishops, hermits,...Does not the whole island blaze with such numerous reliques of its natives, that you can scarcely pass a village of any consequence but you hear the name... | |
 | 1854 - 448 pages
...order that they might exhaust their treasures on the poor, or divide them amongst monasteries. What shall I say of the multitudes of bishops, hermits,...Does not the whole island blaze with such numerous reliques of its natives, that you can scarcely pass a village of any consequence but you hear the name... | |
 | John of Fordun - 1872 - 582 pages
...say of so many bishops, hermits, and abbots ? Does not the whole island blaze with so many relics of natives, that you can scarcely pass a village of any...consequence but you hear the name of some new saint ? Nevertheless, afterwards, in course of time, for a good many years before the arrival of the Normans,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1876 - 954 pages
...in order that they might exhaust their treasures on the poor, or divide them among monasteries. What shall I say of the multitudes of bishops, hermits,...besides the numbers of whom all notices have perished, from the want of records?" Anglo-Saxon England had evidently become much like the Koman provinces in... | |
 | Alexander Hugh Hore - 1891 - 578 pages
...(with reference to those early times), " of the multitudes of Bishops, hermits, and Abbots ? . . . you can scarcely pass a village of any consequence,...whom all notices have perished through the want of record." But all this, he says, had changed ; and there was a general decay of literature and religion.... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury) - 1895 - 604 pages
...divide them amongst monasteries. What shall I say of the multitudes of bishops, hermits, and abbats ? Does not the whole island blaze with such numerous...scarcely pass a village of any consequence but you , .D. 1066-1 CUSTOMS OF THE ENGLISH. 279 Ijoar the ni.me of some new saint, besides the numbers of... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 pages
...order that they might exhaust their treasures on the poor, or divide them amongst monasteries. What shall I say of the multitudes of bishops, hermits,...notices have perished through the want of records 1 Nevertheless, in process of time, the desire after literature and religion had decayed, for several... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - 1904 - 592 pages
...order that they might exhaust their treasures on the poor or divide them amongst monasteries. What shall I say of the multitudes of bishops, hermits,...whole island blaze with such numerous relics of its own people that you can scarcely pass a village of any consequence but you hear the name of some new... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - 1904 - 588 pages
...order that they might exhaust their treasures on the poor or divide them amongst monasteries. What shall I say of the multitudes of bishops, hermits, and abbots? Does not the whole island bla2e with such numerous relics of its own people that you can scarcely pass a village of any consequence... | |
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Many during their whole lives in outward appearance only embraced the present world, in order that they might exhaust their treasures on the poor, or divide them amongst monasteries. What shall I say of the multitudes of bishops, hermits, and abbots ?... 
