Church Work and Life in English Minsters, Volumen1

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Página iii - This vine which thy right hand hath planted in this nation, I have ever prayed unto thee, that it might have the first and the latter rain ; and that it might stretch her branches to the seas and to the floods.
Página 169 - Crowland, so courteous of meat and of drink ; Peterborough the proud, as all men do think. And Sawtrey, by the way, that old abbaye Gave more alms in one day than all they.
Página 48 - Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.
Página 40 - ... much land more, as they may spend, such a number of the poor inhabitants, nigh thereunto, daily relieved that we have not seen the like, having no more lands than they have.
Página 38 - ... benevolent, you will first discover from, observation, and then learn from experience; for they are accustomed to wait on strangers and travellers with every office of humanity, and they seem to contend who shall first invite any one, and prevail on him to partake of their hospitality.
Página 7 - ... Hutton's suggestion is tenable, it was not only in the presence of the living believer that the Mass was celebrated, but " in the midst of the chivalry of Heaven, a multitude that no man can number." Lastly, the whole church was " a tree of life planted in Paradise ; sending its roots deep down into the crypt ; rising with stems in pillar and shaft ; branching out into boughs over the vaulting, blossoming in diaper and mural flora ; breaking out into foliage, flower and fruit on corbel, capital...
Página 38 - That the clergymen here are religious in their manners, honest in their lives, noble in hospitality, affable and agreeble to strangers, and to all benevolent, you will first discover from observation, and then learn from experience; for they are accustomed to wait on strangers and travellers with every office of humanity, and they seem to contend who shall first invite any...
Página 41 - At 11, the cymbal rang for the brethren to wash their hands and faces at the conduit or lavatory before dinner. On leaving the refectory they went into the choir to say Sexts, and specially the Psalms li and Ixvii, and thence to the cemetery, where they stood bareheaded and praying among the graves in which lay the dead never sundered from their love or recollection. Then came, in summer, the meridian, the mid-day sleep; a custom borrowed from the East and southern Europe.
Página 170 - Ramsey, the rich of gold and of fee, Thorney, the flower of many fair tree, Crowland, the courteous of their meat and drink, \ Spalding, the gluttons as all men do think, Peterborough the proud, Sawtrey, by the way, that old abbey Gave more alms in one day than all they.
Página 116 - O all ye that pass by into the " house of the Lord! the house of prayer, pray for " your fellow servant, that he may find mercy in

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