 | 1875 - 444 pages
...exercises, giving thanks to God with uplifted hands. Of a truth, I declare I never saw with my eyes. or heard with my ears any man so earnest in giving thanks to the living God." Looking forward to Ascension Day, Bede used to repeat a prayer much resembling our collect for the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...till the day of our Lord's ascension, that is, the seventh before the kalends of June [twenty-sixth of May], and daily read lessons to us his disciples,...man so earnest in giving thanks to the living God. i •' In this grave ore the boiies of the Venerable Bale." O truly happy man ! He chanted the sentence... | |
 | 1882 - 202 pages
...night, nay every hour, till the day of our Lord's Ascension, that is, the seventh before the Kalends of June (26th of May), and daily read lessons to us...man so earnest in giving thanks to the living God. ' O truly happy man ! ' He chanted the sentence of St. Paul the Apostle, ' It is dreadful to fall into... | |
 | Anna Buckland - 1882 - 562 pages
...Psalms. He also passed the night awake in joy and thanksgiving, unless a short sleep prevented it. I declare with truth, that I have never seen with...man so earnest in giving thanks to the living God. O, truly happy man ! He chanted the sentence of St. Paul the Apostle, ' It is fearful to fall into... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 pages
...[twenty-sixth of May], and daily read lessons to us his disciples, and whatever remained of the day, he »pent in singing psalms ; he also passed all the night awake,...chanted the sentence of St. Paul the apostle, "It is fearful to fall into the hands of theliving God," and much more, out of Holy Writ; wherein also he... | |
 | Mrs. Marguerite Tollemache - 1883 - 286 pages
...he burst into tears. The same Cuthbert relates that he ' never saw with his eyes nor heard with his ears any man so earnest in giving thanks to the Living God.' There is a beautiful legend regarding the appellation ' Venerable,' which is always prefixed to his... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1888 - 438 pages
...till the day of our Lord's ascension, that is, the seventh before the kalends of June [twenty-sixth of May], and daily read lessons to us 'his disciples,...man so earnest in giving thanks to the living God. " O truly happy man ! He chanted the sentence of St. Paul the Apostle, ' It is dreadful to fall into... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1892 - 538 pages
...hands ceased not to give thanks to God. In sooth, I declare that I have never seen with my eyes, or heard with my ears, any man so earnest in giving thanks to the living God. O truly happy man! He chanted the text of the blessed Apostle St. Paul — 'It is a dreadful thing... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1896 - 232 pages
...how he spent the days and nights in giving thanks to God. "I declare with truth", writes Cuthbert, "I have never seen with my eyes, nor heard with my...man so earnest in giving thanks to the living God." During those days he laboured to compose two works, "well worthy to be remembered". One was a translation... | |
 | Frances Egerton Arnold-Forster - 1899 - 590 pages
...rejoicing ; " that was the witness of those about him ; " and," adds Cuthbert, with reiterated emphasis, "I declare with truth that I have never seen with...man so earnest in giving thanks to the living G-od." His only grief — a grief which moved him to tears — was for the sorrow of the friends whom he was... | |
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May], and daily read lessons to us his disciples, and whatever remained of the day, he spent in singing psalms ; he also passed all the night awake, in joy and thanksgiving, unless a short sleep prevented it; in which case he no sooner awoke than he presently... 
