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The work of Anglo-Saxon England consisted chiefly in tilling the soil and in fighting. The year 597 marks an especially important date, the coming of St. Augustine, who brought the Christian faith to the Anglo-Saxons. Education, literature, and art followed finding their home in the monasteries. For nearly 400 years after coming to England, the different tribes were not united under one ruler.
A land once christianized thus actually fell back into paganism, so that the work of converting it to Christianity had to be done over again. The century and a half between 449 and 597 is therefore one of the most important epochs in the history of the people that speak the English language.
But before tracing the history of the construction of the present well-known fabric, a few words will not be out of place concerning the church which preceded it on the same site. A British or Roman church, said to have been built by a certain mythical King Lucius, was given to St. Augustine by Ethelbert in A.D. 597. It was designed, broadly speaking, on the plan of the old Basilica of St.
The spirit of Beowulf, softened and consecrated by religion, still persists in Anglo-Saxon thought and action. Caedmon. In 597 St. Augustine began to teach the Christian religion to the Anglo-Saxons. The results of this teaching were shown in the subsequent literature. In what is known as Caedmon's Paraphrase, the next great Anglo-Saxon epic, there is no decrease in the warlike spirit.
Whitelock, 583,597, 599. Burnet, i. 58-61. Baillie, ii. 377, 381. The moderator meekly but firmly replied, that they formed a spiritual court, established by God, recognized by law, and supported by the solemn league and covenant. But this was a language which the soldier did not, or would not, understand.
As everyone knows, the plebiscite of March 20, 1921, in spite of the violence and notwithstanding the officially protected brigandage, resulted favourably to Germany. Out of 1,200,636 voters 717,122 were for Germany and 483,514 for Poland. The 664 richest, most prosperous and most populous communes gave a majority for the Germans, 597 communes gave a majority for Poland.
I saw no dirt-bands on looking down upon it from a point I attained under the red cliff of Forked Donkia, at an elevation of 18,307 feet by barometer, and 18,597 by boiling-point. The weather was very cold, the thermometer fell from 41 degrees to 34 degrees, and it snowed heavily after 3 p.m.
In 1668, it produced a yearly revenue of £99 a considerable sum in that day, but not in any proportion to the present rental, which amounts to upwards of £12,000 a-year. Grace Abounding, No. 3. Vol. i., p. 618. Grace Abounding, No. 4. Philip's Life of Bunyan, p. 4. Vol. iii., p. 597. Vol. ii., p. 564. Grace Abounding, No. 27. Grace Abounding, No. 5. Ibid., No. 8. Life, p. vii. Ibid. p. viii.
Chenier was French Consul from 1767: the original work is entitled Recherches historiques sur les Maures. Morgan, 557-9, 588, 597, 607. Morgan, 674. 16th Century.
The population of Ireland, which in 1792 was estimated at 4,088,226, had increased in 1814 to 5,937,856, in 1821 to 6,801,827, and in 1841 to 8,196,597. In other words, the population, like the trade, of the doomed island had more than doubled since the Union. We doubt if any European country could say as much.
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