 | Great Britain - 1853 - 440 pages
...he founded a city suitable to his empire, and erected houses therein equally suitable to his city. Now this' dwellingplace was nearly circular, in measure...not of hewn stone, nor of brick and mortar, but of unwrought stones and turf, which he dug out of the centre of the place. . Of these stones some were... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 496 pages
...founded a city suitable to his empire, and erected houses therein equally suitable to his city. Now this1 dwellingplace was nearly circular, in measure from...not of hewn stone, nor of brick and mortar, but of unwrought stones and turf, which he dug out of the centre of the place. Of these stones some were of... | |
 | Bede (the venerable.) - 1853 - 488 pages
...cutting the living rock, the pious inhabitant thereof made it much higher, in order by this meaiis to curb the petulance of his eyes as well as of his...whole bent of his mind to heavenly desires, since ho could behold nothing from his mansion except heaven. He constructed this wall, not of hewn stone,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1879 - 550 pages
...and Cuthbert made it very high by hollowing out the earth inside, in order, as his chronicler says, ' by this means to curb the petulance of his eyes as well as of his thoughts, and to raise his whole mind to heavenly desires,' since he could see nothing from his mansion but the sky. The cell... | |
 | William Forbes Skene - Scotland - 1877 - 546 pages
...affords us a good idea of what such establishments usually were. ' Now this dwelling-place,' says Bede, ' was nearly circular, in measure from wall to wall...wall not of hewn stone, nor of brick and mortar, but of.unwrought stones and turf, which he dug out of the centre of the place. Of these stones, some were... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1879 - 562 pages
...and Cuthbert made it very high by hollowing out the earth inside, in order, as his chronicler says, ' by this means to curb the petulance of his eyes as well as of his thoughts, and to raise his whole mind to heavenly desires,' since he could see nothing from his mansion but the sky. The cell... | |
 | Masonic monthly - 1882 - 398 pages
...itself externally was higher than the stature of a man ; but inwardly, by cutting the living rock,ff the pious inhabitant thereof made it much higher,...desires, since he could behold nothing from his mansion (mansione) except Heaven. He constructed this wall not of hewn stone, nor of brick and mortar, but... | |
 | William Forbes Skene - Scotland - 1887 - 546 pages
...affords us a good idea of what such establishments usually were. ' Now this dwelling-place,' says Bede, ' was nearly circular, in measure from wall to wall...not of hewn stone, nor of brick and mortar, but of unwrought stones and turf, which he dug out of the centre of the place. Of these stones, some were... | |
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Now this1 dwellingplace was nearly circular, in measure from wall to wall about four or five perches. The wall itself externally was higher than the stature of a man ; but inwardly, by cutting the living rock, the pious inhabitant thereof made it much... 