| National American Woman Suffrage Association - 1912 - 688 pages
...have Miss Rankin with us again in the spring of 1915. Of Hilda of Whitby it was said, "Her prudence was so great that not only indifferent persons but...occasion offered, asked and received her advice." The Florida Equal Franchise League is determined to spare no effort to return to the Hildas of this... | |
| William James Heaton - 1913 - 352 pages
...but even kings and princes sometimes asked and received her advice. WHITBY (STREAN.ESHALCH) ABBEI. She obliged those who were under her direction to attend so much to the reading of the Holy Scriptures, and to exercise themselves so much in works of justice, that many... | |
| Arnold Levitas - 1924 - 330 pages
...monasteries and presided over an ecclesiastical synod, the Venerable Bede wrote that "her prudence was so great that not only indifferent persons, but...as occasion offered, asked and received her advice, "t As women of birth had attended the Saxon Witenagamots, so later in history they were summoned to... | |
| Arnold Levitas - 1924 - 336 pages
...synod, the Venerable Bede wrote that "her prudence was so great that not only indifferent persona, but even kings and princes, as occasion offered, asked and received her advice, "t As women of birth had attended the Saxon Witenagamots, so later in history they were summoned to... | |
| George Every, Richard Harries, Bishop Kallistos Ware - 1984 - 276 pages
...system, according to the instruction she had received from learned men. Her prudence was so great that even kings and princes, as occasion offered, asked and received her advice. She obliged those under her direction to give so much attention to reading the holy Scriptures, and so to exercise themselves... | |
| David Lyle Jeffrey - 1996 - 420 pages
...sometimes participated in the instruction of the men.24 1n Hilda's case, Bede informs us, her prudence was so great that not only indifferent persons but even kings and princes, as occasion presented itself, asked and received her advice; she obliged those who were under direction to attend... | |
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