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They mean to give tea-parties once a week to the undergraduates at Saint Bede's, because she says the master ought to be like a father over them, invite them and make his house pleasant to them. Such a thing was never heard of in our days." "No; but I dare say dear Arnold knows best. And what about Miss Smiles?" "I've told you twenty times already, Maria, how Miss Smiles said that Mrs.
I must tell you of a record of St Bede's, which shows how gladly Ireland in old days, as ever, shared the priceless gift which she of all countries, received with the most passionate entireness and held with the most unswerving steadfastness. It was in the year 664 that there was a great pestilence, raging both in England and Ireland.
Ferguson array her in it, and then, with her usual mechanical orderliness, began folding up the shining white draperies and laying them in the larger trunk. "Shall I send that direct to the Lodge, my dear?" Christian looked up absently. "To Saint Bede's Lodge you know that it may be ready for you when you come home?" Home that blessed word which should send a thrill to the heart of any bride.
He did come in, though not immediately, and passing her with a smile, which doubtless furnished the text for a whole week's gossip in Avonsbridge, went over to talk to a group of ladies belonging to Saint Bede's. And now for the first time Christian saw what her husband was "in society."
"Belike, sir, you havena heared as Thias Bede's dead drownded this morning, or more like overnight, i' the Willow Brook, again' the bridge right i' front o' the house." "Ah!" exclaimed both the gentlemen at once, as if they were a good deal interested in the information.
I met as fine a young fellow as ever I saw in my life, about half an hour ago, before I came up the hill a carpenter, a tall, broad-shouldered fellow with black hair and black eyes, marching along like a soldier. We want such fellows as he to lick the French." "Aye, sir, that's Adam Bede, that is, I'll be bound Thias Bede's son everybody knows him hereabout.
The entries relating to earlier events were copied from Bede's Ecclesiastical History and from other Latin authorities. The Chronicle contains chiefly those events which each year impressed the clerical compilers as the most important in the history of the nation. This work is a fountainhead to which writers of the history of those times must turn.
You will find our Catholic literature saturated with sacred lore and knowledge of Holy Scripture. We have translations of various parts of the Bible in these early times. You will remember how in St Bede's last days he finished his translation of part of St John's Gospel.
The workshops have been shut up half an hour or more in Adam Bede's timber-yard, which used to be Jonathan Burge's, and the mellow evening light is falling on the pleasant house with the buff walls and the soft grey thatch, very much as it did when we saw Adam bringing in the keys on that June evening nine years ago.
What besides the Danish conquest caused the decline of Northumbrian literature? For what is Bede worthy to be remembered? Tell the story of Cædmon, as recorded in Bede's History. What new element is introduced in Cædmon's poems? What effect did Christianity have upon Anglo-Saxon literature?
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