England and Its People Or: A Familiar History of the Country, and the Social and Domestic Manners of Its InhabitantsHoulston and Company, 1839 - 171 Seiten |
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... any merit , it is chiefly in the attention which has been paid to the progress of Education , of Religion , of Manners , Habits , and Institutions . ENGLAND AND ITS PEOPLE . THE BRITISH AND SAXONS . vi . INTRODUCTORY .
... any merit , it is chiefly in the attention which has been paid to the progress of Education , of Religion , of Manners , Habits , and Institutions . ENGLAND AND ITS PEOPLE . THE BRITISH AND SAXONS . vi . INTRODUCTORY .
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... religious rites in the depths of forests , and particularly under old oaks . They used to offer up human beings as victims at their altars , under the notion of pleasing their God . Druids . But Such a people were the ancient Britons ...
... religious rites in the depths of forests , and particularly under old oaks . They used to offer up human beings as victims at their altars , under the notion of pleasing their God . Druids . But Such a people were the ancient Britons ...
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... religious houses , in which men and women lived separately , and gave up all their time to prayer and praise and ... religion as Christ himself taught it . As there were no printed books , there could be very few copies of the Bible ...
... religious houses , in which men and women lived separately , and gave up all their time to prayer and praise and ... religion as Christ himself taught it . As there were no printed books , there could be very few copies of the Bible ...
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... religious houses , told them ; and sometimes they told them truly what was in the Bible , and sometimes they told them false , according as they ( the teachers ) were bad or good , or ignorant or well - informed men . Among these dark ...
... religious houses , told them ; and sometimes they told them truly what was in the Bible , and sometimes they told them false , according as they ( the teachers ) were bad or good , or ignorant or well - informed men . Among these dark ...
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... abbots and monks had lived in great state , and where they had often afforded shelter and hospitality to the poor and distressed . And there was a smaller religious dwelling be- longing to ENGLAND AND ITS PEOPLE . 35.
... abbots and monks had lived in great state , and where they had often afforded shelter and hospitality to the poor and distressed . And there was a smaller religious dwelling be- longing to ENGLAND AND ITS PEOPLE . 35.
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Seite 37 - Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. And he said, A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
Seite 60 - Those ministers of vengeance were so alert in the execution of their office, that in a few days there was neither house, cottage, man, nor beast, to be seen in the compass of fifty miles : all was ruin, silence, and desolation.
Seite 44 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Seite 37 - It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad : for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again ; was lost, and is found.
Seite 34 - My house shall be called a house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Seite 61 - There is, sir, but one stage more, which though turbulent and troublesome, is yet a very short one. Consider, it will soon carry you a great way; it will carry you from earth to heaven; and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.
Seite 61 - There is but one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus...
Seite 28 - Saturday, the 29th of January 1820, in the eighty-second year of his age, and the sixtieth of his reign.
Seite 60 - A LETTER of ADVICE to his GRANDCHILDREN, —Matthew, Gabriel, Anne, Mary, and Frances Hale. By Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice in the Reign of Charles II. Now first printed from an Original Manuscript, and collated with the Copy in the British Museum.
Seite 16 - As I am a man, as I am a Christian, as I am a knight, as I am a king!