Chronicles of Wingham ...

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J.A. Jennings, 1896 - 214 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 100 - ... or wound up, or buried in any shirt, shift, sheet, or shroud, made or mingled with flax, hemp, silk, hair, gold, or silver, or other than what is made of sheep's wool only...
الصفحة 203 - Farewell, vain world, I've had enough of thee, And now am careless what thou say'st of me, Thy smiles I court not, nor thy frowns I fear, My cares are past, my heart lies easy here, What faults they find in me take care to shun, And look at home, enough is to be done.
الصفحة 63 - But though she died as well as others, she died not as others die; for, through the merits of her Son, by whom she was what she was, by the grace of Christ which in her had anticipated sin, which had filled her with light, which had purified her flesh from all defilement, she had been saved from disease and malady, and all that weakens and decays the bodily frame.
الصفحة 63 - Apostles were suddenly gathered together in one place, even in the Holy City, to bear part in the joyful ceremonial ; how that they buried her with fitting rites ; how that the third day, when they came to the tomb, they found it empty, and angelic choirs, with their glad voices, were heard singing day and night the glories of their risen Queen.
الصفحة 63 - ... but her tomb could not be pointed out, or, if it was found, it was open ; and instead of her pure and fragrant body, there was a growth of lilies from the earth which she had touched. So inquirers went home marvelling, and waiting for further light. And then...
الصفحة 160 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
الصفحة 75 - I become your man from this day forward [of life and limb, and of earthly worship,] and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear to you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe unto our sovereign lord the king ; and then the lord, so sitting, shall kiss him.
الصفحة 51 - Abbot and of the whole sacred congregation that they would grant to us two or three or four monks of their flock on whom we would bestow the Church hard by our Castle of Lewes which in ancient times had existed in honour of St. Pancras, and which we, from being a wooden church, had converted into one of stone. And at starting we were prepared to surrender as much land and cattle and goods as might suffice for the support of twelve monks. But the holy Abbot was at first very averse to listen to our...
الصفحة 124 - The old scandals, universally discredited at the time, and believed in by a later generation only through prejudice and ignorance, are now dispelled for ever.

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