Older England: Illustrated by the Anglo-Saxon Antiquities in the British Museum in a Course of Six Lectures ..., Volumen2Witting, 1884 - 226 páginas |
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Página 199 - ... pastime, though a hazardous one, is the pleasure of the spectators. What is extraordinary, they play at dice, when sober, as a serious business: and that with such a desperate venture of gain or loss, that, when everything else is gone, they set their liberties and persons on the last throw. The loser goes into voluntary servitude; and, though the youngest and strongest, patiently suffers himself to be bound and sold.
Página 95 - A. 457. — This year Hengest and ^Esc his son fought against the Britons at the place which is called Crecgauford, and there slew four thousand men ; and the Britons then forsook Kent, and in great terror fled to London.
Página 131 - Moreover, he promised, as far as his infirmity and his means would allow, to give up to God the half of his services, bodily and mental, by night and by day, voluntarily, and with all his might...
Página 56 - The chariot, with its curtain, and, if we may believe it, the goddess herself, then undergo ablution in a secret lake. This office is performed by slaves, whom the same lake instantly swallows up. Hence proceeds a mysterious horror ; and a holy ignorance of what that can be, which is beheld only by those who are about to perish.
Página 169 - Will you really give that book to one of us, that is to say, to him who can first understand and repeat it to you?' At this his mother smiled with satisfaction, and confirmed what she had before said. Upon which the boy took the book out of her hand, and went to his master to read it, and in due time brought it to his mother and recited it. After this he learned the daily course, that is, the celebration of the hours, and afterwards certain psalms, and several prayers, contained in a certain book...
Página 132 - God's elect, which always accompanied him wherever he went; but sometimes when they would not continue burning a whole day and night, till the same hour that they were lighted the preceding evening, from the violence of the wind, which blew day and night without intermission through the doors and windows of the churches, the fissures of the divisions, the plankings...
Página 132 - ... and he caused it to be weighed in such a manner that when there was so much of it in the scales, as would equal the weight of seventy-two pence,* he caused the chaplains to make six candles thereof, each of equal length, so that each candle might have twelve divisions! marked longitudinally upon it. By this plan, therefore, those six candles burned for twenty-four hours, a night and day, without fail...
Página 95 - Hengist and Horsa, invited by Vortigern, King of the Britons, landed in Britain on the shore which is called Ebbsfleet2; at first in aid of the Britons, but afterwards they fought against them.
Página 120 - ... the hand of the grantee, to show that the latter was to be entitled to all the products of the soil. And when the purchaser of a house received seizin, or possession, the key of the door, or a bundle of thatch plucked from the roof, signified that the dwelling had been yielded up to him.
Página 99 - Take thin plates of gold and silver, rub them in a mortar with Greek salt or nitre till it disappears ; pour on water and repeat it ; then add salt, and so work it even when the gold remains ; add a moderate portion of the flowers of copper and bullock's gall ; rub them together, and write and burnish the letters.