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" This ardent love not only inspired the continental provinces, but even all who had heard the name of Christ, whether in the most distant islands, or savage countries. The Welshman left his hunting ; the Scot his fellowship with lice ;* the Dane his drinking... "
William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England: From the Earliest ... - Page 364
by William (of Malmesbury) - 1847 - 544 pages
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The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian

Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1905 - 596 pages
...fortunes of kingdoms and dynasties. The crusading impulse, writes William of Malmesbury, fell upon "all who had heard the name of Christ, whether in the most distant lands or savage countries. The Welshman left his hunting; the Scot his fellowship with vermin; the...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature: From the beginnings to the ...

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1907 - 536 pages
...has about it a spaciousness and a wealth of colour which all but rival the glowing periods of Gibbon. This ardent love not only inspired the continental...Welshman left his hunting, the Scot his fellowship with vermin, the Dane his drinking-party, the Norwegian his raw fish. Lands were deserted of their husbandmen;...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 11

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1907 - 526 pages
...has about it a spaciousness and a wealth of colour which all but rival the glowing periods of Gibbon. This ardent love not only inspired the continental...islands or savage countries. The Welshman left his hunting1, the Scot his fellowship with vermin, the Dane his drinking-party, the Norwegian his raw fish....
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History of the Christian Church, Volume 5

Philip Schaff - 1907 - 940 pages
...the children cried out, "Is this Jerusalem, ia this Jerusalem?" William of Malmesbury wrote (IV. 2) "The Welshman left his hunting, the Scot his fellowship...Dane his drinking party, the Norwegian his raw fish. Fields were deserted of their husbandmen ; whole cities migrated. . . . God alone was placed before...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature: From the beginnings to the ...

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1908 - 544 pages
...rival the glowing periods of Gibbon. This ardent love not only inspired the continental provinces, bnt even all who had heard the name of Christ, whether...Welshman left his hunting, the Scot his fellowship with vermin, the Dane his drinking-party, the Norwegian his raw fish. Lands were deserted of their husbandmen;...
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English Literature from Widsith to the Death of Chaucer: A Source Book

Allen Rogers Benham - 1916 - 674 pages
...pp. 95-133. Bohemond had a strenuous life in his struggles against the Turks and the Eastern Emperor. Christians: which being universally diffused* there...heard the name of Christ whether in the most distant lands or savage countries. The Welshman left his hunting; the Scot his fellowship with lice; the Dane...
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English Literature

Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 pages
...dignity, even in translation, in comparison with the brilliant descriptions of Gibbon or Macaulay: — This ardent love not only inspired the continental...Welshman left his hunting, the Scot his fellowship with vermin, the Dane his drinking-party. the Norwegian his raw fish. Lands were deserted of their husbandmen;...
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Readings in English Social History, from Pre-Roman Days to A.D. 1837

Robert Burns Morgan - 1923 - 696 pages
...THE EFFECT OF THE CRUSADING SPIRIT [AD 1096] SOURCE: William of Malmeebury, Chronicle, IV, n (Giles). This ardent love not only inspired the continental...Welshman left his hunting ; the Scot his fellowship with vermin ; the Dane his drinking party ; the Norwegian his raw fish. Lands were deserted of their husbandmen...
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Cambridge History of English Literature 1: From the Beginnings to the Cycles ...

A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1974 - 438 pages
...has about it a spaciousness and a wealth of colour which all but rival the glowing periods of Gibbon. This ardent love not only inspired the continental...had heard the name of Christ, whether in the most distnnt islands or savage countries. The Welshman left his hunting, the Scot his fellowship with vermin,...
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The Medieval Expansion of Europe

J. R. S. Phillips - 1998 - 358 pages
...Malmesbury that 'there was no nation so remote, no people so retired as not to contribute its portion The Welshman left his hunting, the Scot his fellowship...lice, the Dane his drinking party, the Norwegian his warship. Lands were deserted of their husbandsmen, houses of their inhabitants, even whole cities migrated.'...
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