The Lives of the Saints, Volume 10J. Grant, 1914 |
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Page 102 - The king's daughter is all glorious within: Her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: The virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Page 412 - I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.
Page 246 - ... the English nation. The place belongs to the province of the Bernicians, and is generally called the White House, because he there built a church of stone, which was not usual among the Britons.
Page 205 - You err, in that you call the evil spirits of the heathens gods, For there is but one God, Who made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that are in them ; and one Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, Whose kingdom may I enjoy.
Page 102 - I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Page 293 - Theodore, it it not in the modern view a direct work of the great Archbishop. According to the preface, it is a collection of answers given by him to persons questioning him on the subject of penance : to which in Book II. are added answers on the whole range of ecclesiastical laws and discipline : most of them received by a priest named Eoda,
Page 316 - ... measured the land by the clod ; trees, vine-stalks, were all counted. The cattle were marked ; the people registered. Old age or sickness was no excuse ; the sick and the infirm were brought up; every one's age was put down; a few years were added on to the children's, and taken off from the old men's. Meanwhile the cattle decreased, the people died, and there was no deduction made for the dead.
Page 287 - Januarius, liquefying and boiling up at the approach of the martyr's head, is likewise very famous. In a rich chapel called the treasury, in the great church at Naples, are preserved the blood in two very old glass vials, and the head of St. Januarius. The blood is congealed, and of a dark colour ; but when brought in sight of the head, though at a considerable distance, it melts, bubbles up, and, upon the least motion, flows on any side. The fact is attested by Baronius, Ribadeneira, and innumerable...
Page 93 - ... from their servants and governors; and the servants and the children were kept in separate places. Then Childebert and Clotaire sent to the queen their confidant Arcadius (one of the Arvernian senators), with a pair of shears and a naked sword. When he came to Clotilde, he showed her what he bare with him, and said to her, 'Most glorious queen, thy sons, our masters, desire to know thy will touching these children: wilt thou that they live with shorn hair or that they be put to death? ' Clotilde,...
Page 293 - ... admirable. The punishments are generally of excessive severity, induced, it would seem, by the rudeness of barbarous manners, on which it was necessary first to act by means of intimidation. No doubt they were soon practically evaded by the equivalents of alms and other good works. At the same time, in this code set forth by a Greek prelate sent from Rome, there appears no trace of Roman or Byzantine law. On the contrary, it embodies the entire penal system of the Germanic laws, founded on the...