 | 1883 - 798 pages
...From 683 he spent his life in doing good work, which shall bless all time and hallow all eternity. He says, " And while attentive to the rule of mine...pleasure lay in learning or teaching or writing." His last work was the translation of St. John's Gospel. When the last day came, the dying man called... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1874 - 1076 pages
...monastery," he says, " and while attentive to the rule of my order and the service THE ENGLISH KINGDOMS. 37 of the Church, my constant pleasure lay in learning, or teaching, or writing." The words sketch for us a scholar's life, the more touching in its simplicity that it is the life of... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1875 - 912 pages
...Jarrow. "I spent my whole life in the same monastery," he says, " and while attentive to the rule of my order and the service of the Church, my constant pleasure lay in learning, or teaching, or writing." The words sketch for us a scholar's life, the more touching in its simplicity that it is the life of... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1878 - 622 pages
...Jarrow. " I spent my whole life in the same monastery," he says, " and while attentive to the rule of my order and the service of the Church, my constant pleasure lay in learning, or teaching, or writing." The words sketch for us a scholar's life, the more touching in ; CHAP. II. its simplicity that it is... | |
 | Our own country - 1878 - 714 pages
...his own words. " I spent my whole life in the same monastery, and while attentive to the rule of my order and the service of the church, my constant pleasure lay in learning, or teaching, or writing." Within the walls of Jarrow he thus led " a scholar's life, the more touching in its simplicity that... | |
 | 1879 - 588 pages
...days. " I spent my whole life in the same monastery," he says, " and while attentive to the rule of my order and the service of the church, my constant pleasure lay in learning or teaching or writing." The words sketch for us, as Mr. Green remarks, "a scholar's life, the more touching in its simplicity... | |
 | George Frederick Maclear - Great Britain - 1878 - 208 pages
...culture. " I spent my whole life in the same monastery," he says, " and while attentive to the rule of my order and the service of the Church, my constant pleasure lay in learning, or teaching, or writing." The words sketch for us a scholar's life, the more touching in its simplicity that it is the life of... | |
 | Historical reader - 1880 - 212 pages
...Jarrow. " I spent my whole life in the same monastery," he says; "and while attentive to the rule of my order and the service of the Church, my constant pleasure lay in learning, or teaching, or writing." The words sketch for us a scholar's life, the more touching in its simplicity that it is the life of... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1881 - 580 pages
...spent my whole life in a—' the same monastery," he says, " and while attentive to the rule of my order and the service of the Church my constant pleasure lay in learning, or teaching, or writing." 2 The words sketch for us a scholar's life, the more touching in its simplicity that it is the life... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - English literature - 1881 - 86 pages
...his own words: " I spent my whole life in the same monastery, and while attentive to the rules of my order and the service of the church, my constant pleasure lay in teaching, iu learning, or in writing." Yet his fame was European ; more than any other one man probably... | |
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I spent my whole life in the same monastery," he says, "and while attentive to the rule of my order and the service of the Church, my constant pleasure lay in learning, or teaching, or writing. 
