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" ... began to think of returning home, rather than proceed to a barbarous, fierce, and unbelieving nation, to whose very language they were strangers ; and this they unanimously agreed was the safest course. "
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The Complete Works of Venerable Bede: Ecclesiastical history

Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1843 - 412 pages
...decimo quarto, post consulatum ejusdem domini nostri anno decimo tertio, indictione decima quarta." ceed to a barbarous, fierce, and unbelieving nation, to whose very language they were strangers ; and this they unanimously agreed was the safest course. In short, they sent back Augustine, whom he had...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...part of their way, being seized with a slothful fear, began to think of returning home rather than to proceed to a barbarous, fierce, and unbelieving nation, to whose very language thej were strangers : and this they unanimously agreed was the safest course. In short, they sent back...
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Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1850 - 648 pages
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The Manchester illuminator, and general Catholic record, ed. by W ..., Volume 1

William Francis Cleary - 1850 - 240 pages
...of their way, being seized with a slothful fear, began to think of returning home, rather than t > proceed to a barbarous, fierce, and unbelieving nation, to whose very language they were strangers ; and this ihey unanimously agreed -.vns the safest course. In short, thev sent back Augustin (whom ho, the...
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The Church Historians of England: pt. 2. The historical works of the ...

1853 - 496 pages
...work, when they had advanced a short way on their journey, ' were seized with a sluggish fear, and began to think of returning home, rather than proceed...nation, to whose very language they were strangers ; and this they unanimously agreed was the safest course. In short, they sent back Augustine, who had been...
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The historical works of the venerable Bede, tr. with a preface and notes by ...

Bede (the venerable.) - 1853 - 490 pages
...that work, when they had advanced a short way on their journey,1 were seized with a sluggish fear, and began to think of returning home, rather than proceed...nation, to whose very language they were strangers ; and this they unanimously agreed was the safest course. In short, they sent back Augustine, who had been...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...part of their way, being seized with a slothful fear, began to think of returning homo rather than to proceed to a barbarous, fierce, and unbelieving nation, to whose very language they were strangers ; and this they unanimously agreed was the safest course. In short, they sent back Augustin, whom he had...
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The early British Church

William Benjamin Stewart Mathias - 1857 - 228 pages
...Romish, monks were "seized with a sudden fear, and began to think of returning home, rather thanproceed to a barbarous, fierce, and unbelieving nation, to whose very language they were strangers."* They accordingly resolved that Augustine should return to the pope, and request his permission to abandon...
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Church history in England ... to the period of the Reformation, Issue 10

Arthur Martineau - 1862 - 564 pages
...England. The missionaries, on arriving in Gaul, were disheartened at the thought of proceeding farther to a barbarous, fierce, and unbelieving nation, to whose very language they were strangers. They, therefore, sent back Augustine to Rome, to entreat the Pope to excuse them from so dangerous...
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The Headington Parish Magazine, Volume 9

St. Andrew's Church (Headington, Oxford, England) - 1877 - 360 pages
...heaving discouraging accounts of the Saxons, they were, as Bede says, ' seized with a sudden fear, and began to think of returning home, rather than proceed...nation, to whose very language they were strangers; and this, they unanimously agreed, was the safest course.' Augustine therefore retraced his steps to Rome,...
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