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adjective afford altered amongst Anglo Saxon verb Anglo Saxon word appears Archbishop Parker become borrowed Breeches Bible Cæsar called Canterbury Tales caro cassa chapter Chaucer clout compounded Dæl-an derived Domesday Book doubt England English language English word etymology ETYMONS Faerie Queene family of words farthing fetch following passage formerly French word carcasse further Genevan version genitive German ghests Gothic Greek hath Horne Took hurlyburly instance Latin language Low German meaning mind modern myrr-an Normans noun substantive occurs origin oxgange participial termination past participle past participle sorw past tense perhaps Pierce Ploughman present probably reader referred remarks resemblance Romans root Sár Saxon substantive scarcely seems shew signified SOWRE speak spelt strange suppose Teutonic thing thou tongue Took's trace translation unnan verb Sargian verb Syrwan Vision of Pierce whence William Whittingham written
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Page 75 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 35 - But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles, exercise lordship over them ; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
Page 51 - Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." But he knoweth not that the dead are there ; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Page 39 - Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the GOD of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill : because there is no other GOD that can deliver after this sort.
Page xi - Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed figge tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches.
Page 52 - To see so gret a gest come in that place, She never was to non swiche gestes woned, For which she loked with ful pale face.
Page 48 - And of manhod him lakkede right naught. Eek therto he was right a mery man, And after soper pleyen he bigan, And spak of mirthe amonges othere thinges, Whan that we hadde maad our rekeninges; 760 And seyde thus...
Page 35 - And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine : and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.
Page 115 - PERSOUN of a toun ; But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche ; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche.