However, a Norwich knight, the very Quixote of Astrology, arrayed in the enchanted armour of his occult authors, encountered this pagan in a most stately carousal.

" "Do you class me with the idolaters and pagans of Palestine?" demanded Gardiner, reproachfully.

Before any stress comes, early one morning he and his whole force sally out over their earthworks, and from the first "cut down the pagans in great numbers": eight hundred and forty warriorssome say twelve hundredwith Hubba himself are slain before Cynuit fort; the rest, few in number, escape to their ships.

The real hero and heroine are Romola and Tito; and they are identified with the life of the period, which is the Renaissance,a movement more Pagan than Christian.

They are the public faith, without which there is no such thing as honorable national life; and the public service, which unless pure and strong and noble makes all the pagans of free government but doggerel in our ears.

We knew that we should not make them pagans by teaching them justly to admire the poetry, the philosophy, the personal virtues of pagans.

"It would seem," says the writer just quoted, "as if these mementos of mortality were not so painful or so saddening to Pagans as to Christians; and, that death, when believed to be final dissolution, was not so awful or revolting as when known to be the passage to immortality.

For when business is not tempered by the Christian spirit, it is as pagan as any cow temple.

The arguments of those who resist Progress are always the same, whether it be Pagans against Hebrews, Jews against Christians, Romanists against Protestants, or modern Christians against the advocates of a higher spiritualism.

It was the custom among pagans for the priest to embrace a new altar, and Jesus in like manner embraced his cross, that august altar on which the bloody and expiatory sacrifice was about to be offered.

And though her son, the emperor Sviatoslaf, remained a pagan throughout his reign, Christianity continued to grow, and the general Christianization of Russia during the reign of her grandson, Vladimir, was aided materially by the great example of the good queen Olga.

A large number appear to have been gained upon the spot, and before long the greater part of Meath had accepted the new creed, although its king, Laoghaire himself remained a sturdy pagan until his death.

"As my name is Louis," said the king, "the Comet of La Marche doth claim to hold land in such wise, land which hath been a fief of France since the days of the valiant King Clovis, who won all Aquitaine from King Alaric, a pagan without faith or creed, and all the country to the Pyrenean mount.

The facts are as follows: Northumbrian Christianity was well-nigh exterminated through the victory of Penda the pagan over Edwin the Christian, A.D. 633.

Full of zeal, he resolved to preach the faith to the pagans along the Rhine, and with this purpose set out with a few of his followers.

Though pagans like the latter, they eat all kinds of things, and live almost like the Tartars, from whom they are descended.

Before he could be afoot again in the spring of 877 the main body of the pagans at Exeter had made that city too strong for any attempt at assault, so the King and his troops could do no more than beleaguer it on the land side, as he had done at Wareham.

As early as 1510, in fact, the Spanish crown relaxed its discrimination against pagans by ordering the purchase of above a hundred negro slaves in the Lisbon market for dispatch to Hispaniola.

He is just strong enough to keep the pagans within their lines, but has no margin to spare.

The Indian comes before God, a pagan from a Christian land; he comes having improved none of the powers that God gave him.

Those students who lent him books, or who told him of those he should search for in his free hours in the library on the hill of Saint Genevieve, laughed like pagans at the exalted ideas of the former seminarist.

When Paul was preaching the kingdom of God in the Roman empire, if a malicious enemy had declared to a Roman proconsul that the Christians were conspiring to eject all Pagans out of the senate and out of the public administration; who can doubt what Paul would have replied?The kingdom of God is not of this world: it is within the heart, and consists in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Slavery more tolerable amongst the antient Pagans than in our colonies, 63.

We must all seem pagans to him!"

Sir Strange Ebbesön and Bishop Peder Sunesön were the spokesmen, and many knights, whose fame had travelled far in the long years of fighting to bring the Baltic pagans under the cross, rode with them.