The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Volumen4H.G. Bohn, 1856 - 427 páginas |
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Página xli - At the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the twelfth century a great revival took place in art.
Página 40 - Now, too, the water washed some of the crew overboard, and, entering the chinks, drowned others; when the boat having been launched, the young prince was received into it, and might certainly have been saved by reaching the shore, had not his illegitimate sister, the countess of Perche, now struggling with death in the larger vessel, implored her brother's assistance; shrieking out that he should not abandon her so barbarously. Touched with pity, he ordered the boat to return to the ship, that he...
Página 21 - It extends 800 miles in length towards the north, and is 200 miles in breadth, except where several promontories extend further in breadth, by which its compass is made to be 3675 miles.
Página lxxxvii - I believe, was common in the latter part of the fifteenth, and the first part of the sixteenth century, and of which I have several other specimens.
Página xci - History (The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, by Ordericus Vitalis, translated, with notes, and the Introduction of Guizot, by Thomas Forester, MA ; London, Bohn, 1853 and 1854, in 12mo.) ; one volume has still to appear.
Página 218 - The King's disaster filled with grief the clergy and monks and the common people; because he was condescending and courteous to those who were good and quiet, and if his treacherous nobles had allowed it, he would have put an end to their rapacious enterprises, and been a generous protector and benevolent friend of the country.
Página 36 - The moon was at this time in her nineteenth day in the constellation of the Bull, and gave light to the world for nine hours, so that all objects on the surface of the sea were clearly visible to the sailors. Thomas, the master of this vessel, after his first plunge into the sea, gained fresh energy, and, recovering his senses, raised his head above the water, and perceiving the two men clinging to the yard-arm, cried out, ' What has become of the king's son ?' The shipwrecked men replied that he...
Página 223 - I was ten years old when I crossed the British sea, and arrived in Normandy, an exile, unknown to all, and knowing no one. Like Joseph in Egypt, I heard a language to which I was an utter stranger. But, supported by thy merciful goodness, I found the utmost kindness and attention amongst these foreigners.
Página 222 - ... will have one, and of what sort, I know not. What shall I say more ? Amid these things, I turn my speech to thee, O Almighty God, and with double force beseech thy goodness that thou wouldest have mercy on me. I give thee thanks, O King most high, who didst freely make me, and hast ordered my years according to thy good pleasure. For thou art my King and my God, and I am thy servant and the son of thine handmaid, who, from the first days of my life, according to my power, have served thee. For...
Página 223 - O glorious God, who badest Abraham to depart from his own land and his father's house, and the society of his kinsmen, thou didst put it into the heart of my father Odelirius to separate me entirely from himself, and devote me, in body and soul, to thee. He therefore, amidst floods of tears, delivered me, also weeping bitterly, to the monk Reynold, and, sending me into exile for the love of thee, never saw me afterwards. Being then a young boy, it was not for me to oppose my father's will ; and he...