 | Maurice Walter Keatinge - 1910 - 252 pagina’s
...grammar was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by their fine vestments, and the use of every kind of food....and masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers. . . . Drinking in parties was a universal practice, in which occupation they passed entire nights as... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1915 - 484 pagina’s
...who understood grammar, was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments, and the use of every kind...and masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers, amid the blandishments of their wives. The commonalty, left unprotected, became a prey to the most... | |
 | Allen Rogers Benham - 1916 - 674 pagina’s
...understood grammar 40 was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments and the use of every kind...food. The nobility, given up to luxury and wantonness, did not go to church in the morning after the manner of Christians, but merely in a careless manner... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1917 - 414 pagina’s
...who understood grammar was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments and the use of every kind...masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers. The common people, left unprotected, became a prey to the most powerful, who amassed fortunes, by either... | |
 | Robert Burns Morgan - 1923 - 696 pagina’s
...who understood grammar, was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments, and the use of every kind...masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers. The commonality, left unprotected, became a prey to the most powerful, who amassed fortunes by either seizing... | |
 | 1924 - 136 pagina’s
...was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine clothing, and the use of every kind of food. The nobility, given...Christians, but merely in a careless manner heard mattins and masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers. . . . The commonalty, left unprotected,... | |
 | William Boulting - 1996 - 274 pagina’s
...who understood grammar was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments and the use of every kind of food." Wulstan implored Saewulf to give up a livelihood which was beset with all manner of temptation, and... | |
 | John of Fordun - 1872 - 298 pagina’s
...time, for a good many years before the arrival of the Normans, the upper classes, given up to gluttony and wantonness, went not to church in the morning after the manner of Christians, hut, in their chambers, and in the arms of their wives, barely listened to a priest who hurried through... | |
 | Derek Baker - 1995 - 278 pagina’s
...object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order with fine vestments and with the use of every kind of food. The nobility, given up to luxury and wantonness, did not go to church in the early morning after the manner of Christians, but merely in a casual manner... | |
 | Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts - 2000 - 324 pagina’s
...and the use of every k\nd of food. Their nobility, given up to luxury and wantonness, went not to the church in the morning after the manner of Christians,...and masses from a hurrying priest in their chambers amid the blandishments of their wives. The common people left unprotected became a prey to the most... | |
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The clergy, contented with a very slight degree of learning, could scarcely stammer out the words of the sacraments ; and a person who understood grammar, was an object of wonder and astonishment. The monks mocked the rule of their order by fine vestments,... 
