 | William Russell - 1802 - 550 pages
...solemn procession. High mass was said with gretit pomp. The ass was taught to kneel at proper places ; a hymn, no less childish than impious, was sung in...the usual response, brayed three times in return*. Letters began to revive in the eleventh century, but made small progress till towards its close. A... | |
 | William Robertson - 1809 - 516 pages
...solemn procession. High mass was said with great pomp. The ass was taught to kneel at proper places; a hymn no less childish than impious was sung in his...he dismissed the people,' brayed three times like .ail ass ; and the people, instead of the usual re* «ponse, We bless the Lord, brayed three times... | |
 | James Townley - 1813 - 230 pages
...procession. High Mass was said with great pomp. The ass J16 was taught to kneel at proper places ; a hymn, no less childish than impious, was sung in...the usual response, brayed three times in return. (133) But in the midst of illiteracy and superstition, justice claims our acknowldgments to those institutions,... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 598 pages
...solemn procession. High mass wax said with great pomp. The ass was taught to kneel at proper places ; a hymn no less childish than impious was sung in his...ass ; and the people, instead of the usual response, we bless the Lord, brayed three times in the same manner. Du Cange, voc.Jestum, v. iii, p. 424. This... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 602 pages
...solemn procession. High mass was said with great pomp. The ass was taught to kneel at proper places ; a hymn no less childish than impious was sung in his...ass ; and the people, instead of the usual response, we bless the Lord, brayed three times in the same manner. Du Cange, \oc.festum, v. iii, p. 424. This... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 596 pages
...solemn procession. High mass was said with great pomp. The ass was taught to kneel at proper places ; a hymn no less childish than impious was sung in his...ass ; and the people, instead of the usual response, we bless the Lord, brayed three times in the same manner. Du Cange, voc.jestum, v. iii, p. 42-i. This... | |
 | John Evans - 1814 - 536 pages
...Priest, instead of the «sual words wkh which he dismissed the people, traytd thrte times like an ait, and the people, instead of the usual response, brayed three times in return'.!! «nce of delicious fruit and furnishing a refreshing shade, because caterpillars disfigured the leaves,... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 pages
...procession — high mass was said with great pomp — the ass was taught to kneel at proper places — a hymn, no less childish than impious, was sung in...the usual response, brayed three times in return.* " Every thing sacred in religion," says Mons. Voltaire, when treating of this period, " was disfigured... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 492 pages
...procession — high mass was said with great pomp — the ass was taught to kneel at proper places — a hymn, no less childish than impious, was sung in...instead of the usual response, brayed three times in re. turn.* " Every thing sacred in religion," says Mons. Voltaire, when treating of this period, "... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 pages
...procession — high mass was said with great pomp — the ass was taught to kneel at proper places — a hymn, no less childish than impious, was sung in...instead of the usual response, brayed three times in re. turn.* " Every thing sacred in religion," says Mons. Voltaire, when treating of this period, "... | |
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A young girl, richly dressed, with a child in her arms, was set upon an ass superbly caparisoned. The ass was led to the altar in solemn procession. High mass was said with great pomp. The ass was. taught to kneel at proper places ; a hymn no less childish... 
