Book, Chapter
1 0, Int | of these, as well as of a great number of other manuscripts,
2 0, Int | affording evidence of a great persecution of Christians
3 0, Int | biographical sketch of Gregory the Great, the founder of the Mission.
4 0, Int | with its bearing on the great crisis of his life is related;
5 0, Int | during the miseries of the great plague of 664. Mercia, so
6 0, Int | bishops, he subdivides the great Northumbrian diocese. Wilfrid
7 0, Life | spirituality of Bede, his great learning and scholarly attainment
8 0, Life | other end his life in so great devotion and peace. For,
9 I, I | chiefly white. There is also a great abundance of snails, of
10 I, I | and silver; it produces a great deal of excellent jet, which
11 I, I | reason the days are of a great length in summer, and on
12 I, I | question of their origin one of great difficulty.] There, finding
13 I, II | second engagement, with great hazard to his men, he defeated
14 I, II | the river Thames, where a great multitude of the enemy had
15 I, V | tribes; and, after many great and severe battles, he thought
16 I, V | it. Thus Severus drew a great trench and strong rampart,
17 I, VI | mean birth, but a man of great ability and energy, being
18 I, VI | Britain also attained to the great glory of bearing faithful
19 I, VIII | Gaul and Spain, a man of great clemency and urbanity, died
20 I, VIII | Constantine [Constantine the Great] born of Helena, his concubine,
21 I, X | have been a Briton. His great opponent, St. Augustine,
22 I, X | original sin, involving a too great reliance on the human will
23 I, XII | engaging the enemy, slew a great multitude of them, drove
24 I, XII | they returned home with great triumph. But the islanders
25 I, XII | that is, of a rampart of great breadth and height, there
26 I, XII | unexpectedly in autumn, made great slaughter of the enemy,
27 I, XIII | plague followed; moreover, a great part of the wall of that
28 I, XIV | Britons, compelled by the great famine, drove the barbarians
29 I, XVII | these, having assembled a great synod, consulted together
30 I, XIX | vanquished by the power of God. A great crowd of people watched
31 I, XX | grace of baptism. For a great multitude of the army desired
32 I, XXIII | about; being assured, that great labour is followed by the
33 I, XXV | the boundary formed by the great river Humber, by which the
34 I, XXV | beseech thee, Lord, for Thy great mercy, that Thy wrath and
35 I, XXVII | present, if there be so great a distance between them,
36 I, XXVII | also, whose pretence is of great benefit, should easily come
37 I, XXVII | at the same time, of his great goodness and loving-kindness,
38 I, XXVII | so bound. Wherefore that great soldier of our Lord’s host,
39 I, XXVIII | becoming, receive him with so great kindness and affection,
40 I, XXIX | harvest which he had was great and the labourers but few,
41 I, XXXI | means of you, shows forth great miracles to the nation which
42 I, XXXIII | with the honour due to so great a person.~
43 I, XXXIV | came against him with a great and mighty army, but was
44 II, I | Apostolic see, a man of great honour in Christ and in
45 II, I | holy man constrained by his great humility. But it behoves
46 II, I | Job, which is involved in great obscurity; nor could he
47 II, I | are laid the limbs of a great pontiff, who yet lives for
48 II, II | Britons, and many men of great learning, particularly from
49 II, II | mighty army, made a very great slaughter of that heretical
50 II, II | it is said, there was so great a number of monks, that
51 II, II | impious army, not without great loss of his own forces.
52 II, IV | the Britons and Scots in great esteem for sanctity, believing
53 II, IV | The most famous of the great Irish missionaries who laboured
54 II, IV | instituted a monastic rule of great severity.) in Gaul, that
55 II, VI | inflict such stripes on so great a man. And when he heard
56 II, IX | case. And being a man of great natural sagacity, he often
57 II, X | comprehend or express how great it is; yet inasmuch as His
58 II, X | the eternal life.~ "How great guilt they lie tinder, who
59 II, XII | to bribe that king with a great sum of money to murder him,
60 II, XII | compact I have made with so great a king, when he has done
61 II, XII | he could in return for so great a benefit. The other further
62 II, XII | foretell that all these great blessings are about to befall
63 II, XII | deliver him from so many great calamities, and raise him
64 II, XII | altogether unworthy of so great a king to sell his good
65 II, XIV | noble and royal persons. So great was then the fervour of
66 II, XV | spiritual field reaped therein a great harvest of believers, delivering
67 II, XVI | King Edwin, and with him a great multitude of the people,
68 II, XVI | deacon, a man of zeal and great fame in Christ and in the
69 II, XVI | designed, either through the great dread they had of the king,
70 II, XVI | him. His dignity was so great throughout his dominions,
71 II, XVII | well as by reason of the great extent of the provinces
72 II, XVIII | toilsome journey to Rome, at so great a distance by sea and land,
73 II, XIX | sent to them letters of great authority and erudition
74 II, XIX | undispelled in a matter of so great moment, we opened the same,
75 II, XX | with varying success.~ A great battle being fought in the
76 II, XX | his oath. At this time a great slaughter was made in the
77 II, XX | name to this day. He had great skill in singing in church,
78 III, III | country of the Scots, and with great devotion preached the Word
79 III, IV | Ireland, which, from the great number of oaks, is in the
80 III, IV | in fixing the time of the great festival, as having none
81 III, VI | and told the king, that a great multitude of poor folk from
82 III, VI | and it was fit that so great a predecessor should have
83 III, VII | sustaining repeatedly very great losses in his kingdom from
84 III, VIII | particularly those that were of a great age, or most noted for their
85 III, VIII | might be, they beheld a great light coming down from heaven,
86 III, VIII | virginity, in a life of great self-denial, but the extent
87 III, IX | Oswald was killed in a great battle, by the same pagan
88 III, IX | the month of August.~How great his faith was towards God,
89 III, IX | the very place where the great king died. Immediately the
90 III, X | drank deep. Now there was a great fire in the middle of the
91 III, XI | he passed that night in great peace; nor was he, from
92 III, XIII | through the merits of so great a man, both grant you a
93 III, XIV | Deiri seven years in very great prosperity, and was himself
94 III, XIV | was very compassionate, a great friend to the poor, and,
95 III, XV | Between 642 and 645 AD.~How great the merits of Aidan were,
96 III, XV | name was Utta,2 a man of great weight and sincerity, and
97 III, XVI | encompassed the place to a great height on the land side,
98 III, XVI | tears, "Behold, Lord, how great evil is wrought by Penda!"
99 III, XVII | with the respect due to so great a prelate.~Finan,who had
100 III, XVIII | Kent.~This king became so great a lover of the ‘heavenly
101 III, XIX | appears to be a terrible and great pyre, yet it tries every
102 III, XIX | approached the aforesaid great fire, the angel divided
103 III, XIX | mid-summer, by reason of the great terror or joy of which he
104 III, XXIV | which then, owing to the great rains, was in flood, and
105 III, XXIV | 15th of November, to the great benefit of both nations;
106 III, XXV | of lead.~At this time, a great and frequently debated question
107 III, XXV | follow the example of so great an Apostle, who was thought
108 III, XXV | there or standing by, both great and small, gave their assent,
109 III, XXVI | the entertainment of the great men of the world; for such
110 III, XXVI | was at that time held in great veneration; so that wheresoever
111 III, XXVI | or blessed by his lips. Great attention was also paid
112 III, XXVII | and near, and destroyed a great multitude of men. By this
113 III, XXVII | and Egbert,two youths of great capacity, of the English
114 III, XXVII | venerable for his age, and of great veracity, who declared he
115 III, XXVII | kingdom. He passed his life in great perfection of humility,
116 III, XXVII | and justice. Thus he was a great benefactor, both to his
117 III, XXX | ended his faithful life in great felicity.~King Wulfhere,
118 IV, I | priest Wighard, a man of great learning in the teaching
119 IV, I | that he was unworthy of so great a dignity, but said that
120 IV, II | duly consecrated, he, with great humility, answered, "If
121 IV, III | care to administer it with great perfection of life, according
122 IV, III | Now Owini was a monk of great merit, having forsaken the
123 IV, III | blessing, had gone away in great sorrow, he who had heard
124 IV, III | come in the clouds, with great power and majesty, to judge
125 IV, III | after, Hygbald, a man of great holiness and continence,
126 IV, III | because it was said by so great a man, there can be no doubt
127 IV, V | He at that time bore so great affection to the Roman Apostolic
128 IV, V | aforesaid synod, a man of great saintliness and piety, was
129 IV, VII | light from heaven, like a great sheet, came down upon them
130 IV, VII | radiance of this light was so great, that one of the older brethren,
131 IV, VIII | this house filled with so great a light, that that lamp
132 IV, IX | might be delivered from such great and long-continued pains;
133 IV, X | over that monastery with great vigour many years, till
134 IV, X | show by her recovery how great a light is vouchsafed to
135 IV, X | Christ in Heaven, and how great a grace of healing power.~
136 IV, XI | heavenly kingdom, he fell into great bodily infirmity, of which
137 IV, XI | apprehend lest, when in great pain, at the approach of
138 IV, XI | without any pain, and with a great splendour of light; and
139 IV, XIII | consent, or rather to his great joy, cleansed in the sacred
140 IV, XIII | the province, and found so great misery from famine there,
141 IV, XV | Caedwalla,a young man of great vigour, of the royal race
142 IV, XVIII | Rome, and received with great joy by the Apostolic Pope,
143 IV, XIX | sickness she had a very great tumour under her jaw. "And
144 IV, XIX | her jaw and neck, she took great pleasure in that sort of
145 IV, XIX | brought, where it is held in great veneration to this day.
146 IV, XIX | it has its name from the great plenty of eels taken in
147 IV, XXI | reign of King Egfrid, a great battlewas fought between
148 IV, XXIII | property. Her prudence was so great, that not only meaner men
149 IV, XXIII | Bosel, Tatfrid,a man of great industry and learning, and
150 IV, XXIII | and rising immediately in great fear, she ran to the virgin
151 IV, XXIII | citizens of heaven, with a great light, and with angels for
152 IV, XXIII | God, who loved her with a great love, in the same monastery
153 IV, XXV | himself, he conceived a great horror, and dreaded lest
154 IV, XXV | heard his offence, said, "A great wound requires greater care
155 IV, XXV | he, being oppressed with great grief by reason of his guilty
156 IV, XXV | answered, ‘I know I have great need to continue in wholesome
157 IV, XXVII | led a solitary life, in great continence of body and mind,
158 IV, XXVII | the Abbot Eata,a man of great gentleness and simplicity,
159 IV, XXVII | time was Boisil,a priest of great virtue and of a prophetic
160 IV, XXVII | there become conspicuous by great tokens of virtue, his most
161 IV, XXVIII | enter, it happened that a great synod was assembled in the
162 IV, XXIX | life in the island of that great lake from which the river
163 IV, XXX | order to show forth the great glory of the life after
164 IV, XXX | this, were struck with a great dread, and hastened to tell
165 IV, XXX | Nativity of our Lord, in great devotion with abstinence.
166 IV, XXX | the garments even, with great affection, as if they had
167 IV, XXX | has been hallowed with so great grace of heavenly miracles;
168 IV, XXX | manner, with many tears and great compunction and with faltering
169 IV, XXXI | struck with palsy, and with great trouble made his way home
170 V, I | broken, and there arose so great and terrible a tempest,
171 V, III | death of Bosa, a man of great sanctity and humility, was,
172 V, III | and had been received with great and universal joy, the abbess
173 V, IV | which she had lost for so great a time, she presented the
174 V, V | because his life was of great moment to him; and he believed
175 V, IX | prophet, "For my sake this great tempest is upon you,"’ withdrew
176 V, IX | leading a hermit’s life in great perfection, took ship, and
177 V, IX | reaped no fruit of all his great labour among his barbarous
178 V, XI | other things needful for so great a work. Having obtained
179 V, XI | living, venerable for his great age, having been thirty-six
180 V, XII | body weeping fled away in great terror, only his wife, who
181 V, XII | day of his death, in so great contrition of mind and mortifying
182 V, XII | rising as it were out of a great pit, and falling back again
183 V, XII | had filled my nostrils. So great was the light shed over
184 V, XII | perceived before and thought so great, then seemed to me but a
185 V, XII | go into the same for the great desire he had to do penance
186 V, XIII | ploughshares are now with great torment creeping into the
187 V, XIII | one, the latter one very great; it is to be observed, that
188 V, XV | 703 A.D.]~AT this time a great part of the Scots in Ireland,
189 V, XV | ordaining it, that as he was a great lover of peace and unity,
190 V, XV | concerning the holy places, of great profit to many readers;
191 V, XV | western coast of Britain by a great tempest. After many adventures
192 V, XVI | have been born, stands the great church of St. Mary." He
193 V, XVI | large silver cross, having a great brazen wheel with lamps
194 V, XVI | entrance, against which that great stone was set. To this day
195 V, XVII | entrance from the west, with a great lamp hanging above it on
196 V, XVIII | frequently carried away, a great hole was made there.~Upon
197 V, XIX | departed from Britain, the great bishop, Wilfrid, ended his
198 V, XIX | with the honour due to so great a prelate. Concerning whose
199 V, XIX | afterwards finished with great devotion by the most reverend
200 V, XIX | before the nobility and a great number of the people for
201 V, XIX | rest said, that a man of so great authority, who had held
202 V, XIX | begun to discourse, with great awe, of the judgements of
203 V, XIX | Here rests the body of the great Bishop Wilfrid, who, for
204 V, XIX | this place he gathered a great throng of monks, and with
205 V, XX | likewise a man of zeal and great in noble works in the sight
206 V, XXI | Genesis, ‘And God made two great lights; the greater light
207 V, XXI | is at the present day so great a number of calculators,
208 V, XXI | the Egyptians, can with great ease carry on the Paschal
209 V, XXI | afterwards by his preaching led great numbers of that nation to
210 V, XX III| been said, besides having a great knowledge of letters both
211 V, XX III| appeared about the sun, to the great terror of the beholders.
212 V, XX III| so filled with many and great commotions and conflicts,
213 V, XXIV | received the surrender of a great part of the island, and
214 V, XXIV | presiding: the synod was of great profit, and its decrees
215 V, XXIV | slain.~In the year 741, a great drought came upon the country.
216 V, XXIV | whose second year there was great tribulation by reason of
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