After the expulsion of the Danes, and during the brief restoration of the Saxon monarchy, these were still followed: even Edward the Confessor, who would join in no other secular amusements, took the greatest delight, says William of Malmesbury, "to follow a pack of swift hounds in pursuit of game, and to cheer them with his voice.

All over Syria there are French clerical, secular, and Judaic schools.

In July, 1139, a great council was held at Oxford; and thither came these three bishops with military and secular pomp, and with an escort that became "the wonder of all beholders."

He desired that the Pope should disentangle himself from the secular part of his office, and reduce that office within the purely spiritual domain; and that, above all, he should learn to govern and restrict himself.

Among the people and among the nobles, a considerable party had arisen who would concede to the Pope no kind of secular dominion.

Until his reappearance there is nothing left for the community to do but to await his advent, under the guidance of their secular rulers (e.g., the shâhs of Persia) and enlightened by their authoritative scholars (mujtahids), who explain faith and law to them from the tradition of the Sacred Family.

As secular affairs are often more expedited by a judicious arrangement, than by hard doing indiscriminately at the mass; so will undertakings of superior importance be more advantageously attained by keeping a single eye, and looking for best direction to make a proper selection of what ought to be done and what ought not to be done.

'Sir, Dr. Cheyne has laid down a rule to himself on this subject, which should be imprinted on every mind:"To neglect nothing to secure my eternal peace, more than if I had been certified I should die within the day: nor to mind any thing that my secular obligations and duties demanded of me, less than if I had been ensured to live fifty years more.

And as kings became proud and secular, probably their palaces became grander and larger,like the palaces of Nebuchadnezzar and Rameses the Great and the Persian monarchs at Susa, combining labor, skill, expenditure, dazzling the eye by the number of columns and statues and vast apartments, yet still deficient in beauty and grace.

De gustibus non est applies with as much force to religious as to secular life.

a week, and grow good, Messrs. Wilding and Strachan generously opened a room connected with their mill in New Hall-lane, for secular and religious instruction.

I must leave what I wrote in the midst of the stirring scenes of the interregnum between the secular monarchy and the short-lived Republicwhose advent I foresaw, but whose sudden fall was veiled from my sanguine visionwithout defense or apology, claiming only that it was written in good faith, from a heart filled with passionate convictions and an ardent love and devotion to what is best in Spain.

These bishops were surrounded and supported by priests, secular and regular,by those who ruled the people in small parishes, and those who ruled the upper classes in their monastic cells.

But the popes exercised certain powers and prerogatives in England, about the time of Wyclif, which were exceedingly offensive to the secular rulers of the land.

Nor were the lives of the secular clergy much more respectable than those of the great body of monks.

The reign of Elizabeth was marked, for the first time in the history of England, by the almost total exclusion of prelates from great secular offices.

In his treatise on the "Regimen of the Church" he contends that neither doctors nor deacons should hold secular offices, or even be land stewards and clerks of account, and appeals to the authority of the Fathers and Saint Paul in confirmation of his views.

And so of other abuses of the Church: he did not defy the Pope or deny his authority until it was plain that he sought to usurp the prerogatives of kings and secular rulers, and bring both the clergy and laity under his spiritual yoke.

The best known among his secular songs is Nordlands Trompet, a beautiful and patriotic description of the northern part of Norway.

These mercenary troops guarded his throne by the terrors of the sword; and Stephen, that he might also overawe all malecontents by new and additional terrors of religion, procured a bull from Rome, which ratified his title, and which the pope, seeing this prince in possession of the throne, and pleased with an appeal to his authority in secular controversies, very readily granted him

Without consulting the king, he immediately returned into his hands the commission of chancellor; pretending that he must thenceforth detach himself from secular affairs, and be solely employed in the exercise of his spiritual function; but in reality, that he might break off all connexions with Henry, and apprize him, that Becket, as Primate of England, was now become entirely a new personage.

They made only one convert in England, a woman as ignorant as themselves; yet they gave such umbrage to the clergy, that they were delivered over to the secular arm, and were punished by being burned on the forehead, and then whipped through the streets.

In their synods and assemblies they usurped the attributes of secular rulers, and discussed questions of peace and war.

He has even been called the founder of the secular English drama.

Leaving the service, he took orders, and was at this time a secular priest, living with Mr. Whitgrave.

CHAPTER I. SACRED LYRICS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.

Observe their realism, as, for instance, in the words: "The stones beoth al wete;" a realism as far removed from the coarseness of a Rubens as from the irreverence of too many religious teachers, who will repeat and repeat again the most sacred words for the merest logical ends until the tympanum of the moral ear hears without hearing the sounds that ought to be felt as well as held holiest.

An entire series of these Miracles consisted of short dramatic representations of many single passages of the sacred story.

Nor do I judge it good to spend much of my space upon remarks personal to those who have not been especially writers of sacred verse.

And were they not, yet since that loving Lord Commanded us to love them for his sake, Even for his sake, and for his sacred word, Which in his last bequest he to us spake, We should them love, and with their needs partake; share their Knowing that, whatsoe'er to them we give, [needs.

For in that sacred object is much pleasure, And in that Saviour is my life, my treasure.

Whom chosen thou unto thee takest; And whom into thy court receivéd, Thou of thy checkrole number makest: The dainty viands of thy sacred store Shall feed him so he shall not hunger more.

In the beginning, with a mighty hand, He made the earth by counterpoise to stand, Never to move, but to be fixed still; Yet hath no pillars but his sacred will.

Cast down thyself, and only strive to raise The story of thy Maker's sacred name: Use all thy powers that blessed Power to praise, Which gives the power to be, and use the same.

The other troop shall climb, with sacred heat, The rich degrees of Solomon's bright seat: steps In glowing roses fervent zeal they bear, And in the azure flower-de-lis appear Celestial contemplations, which aspire Above the sky, up to the immortal choir.

The title, which is almost as long as the work, runs thus: "A narrative of everything done by the Romans in Armenia, Media, and Mesopotamia, by Antiochianus, who gained a prize in the sacred games of Apollo.

The king asked us how we dared to enter, alone as we were, into that sacred abode.

When I had thus seen and diverted myself with everything, I shook my wings and flew off, "To join the sacred senate of the skies."

She had a few guineas left from her father's last gift; but she now shrunk from using them even for so sacred a purpose.

Above all, as it was necessary to make the blind man understand the almost sacred importance of the judgment with which Heaven had invested him, a solemn oath was administered by the president of the assembly.

Where was your honour if you have forgotten all your sacred promisesif you have perjured yourself?' 'Sophia, Sophia, pity me.

Will you swear, by all you hold most dear and sacred, to keep our secret inviolable for the time agreed?'

" "Nay, for the colors have a meaning; methinks this yellow is their sacred color.

But when the Levant sends to Venice for these sacred lamps for her own temples it is her acknowledgment that we have surpassed our teachers.

I must walk soberly, Fra Giulio, lest I miss some revelation, so sacred and so mysterious is knowledge!

The emperor received them very graciously; and after a friendly entertainment, sent them to the bishop of Ephesus with letters, which they name sacred, commanding him to admit the English ambassadors to see the seven sleepers.

We there did reverence to the Emperor Alexius, visited the church, of Sancta Sophia, and devoutly kissed many sacred relics.

From the most glorious sepulchre of Christ, we were conducted to visit the other sacred monuments of the holy city; and saw, with weeping eyes, a great number of holy churches and oratories, which Achius the Soldan of Egypt had lately destroyed.

And, having deeply bewailed all the ruins of that most holy city, both within and without its walls, and having bestowed money for the re-edifying of some of these, we expressed the most ardent desire to go forth into the country, that we might wash ourselves in the sacred river Jordan, and that we might visit and kiss all the holy footsteps of the blessed Redeemer.

All are in their dresses of office; for this is not merely a day of amusement, but of religions ceremony; sacred to DionysosBacchus, the inspiring god, who raises men above themselves, for goodor for evil.