 | 1846 - 436 Seiten
...Wolstan, standing in the open air and looking on, could not restrain his tears at the sight, saying, " We wretched people destroy the works of the saints,...that we may pile up stones, neglecting the while the cure of souls*." Whatever allowance may be made for the Saxon feelings of Wolstan, himself a Saxon... | |
 | Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1846 - 434 Seiten
...Wolstan, standing in the open air and looking on, could not restrain his tears at the sight, saying, " We wretched people destroy the works of the saints,...that we may pile up stones, neglecting the while the cure of souls1." Whatever allowance may be made for the Saxon feelings of Wolstan, himself a Saxon... | |
 | 1846 - 488 Seiten
...Wolstan standing in the open air and looking on, could not restrain his tears at the sight, saying, ' We wretched people destroy the works of the saints,...praise for ourselves. That age of happy men knew not hcrw to construct pompous edifices, but they knew well how, under such roofs as they had, to sacrifice... | |
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... was on a different site, and when the new church was sufficiently advanced to be occupied by the monks, he ordered the old church, the work of the blessed Oswald, to be unroofed and pulled down. But Wolstan, standing in the open air and looking on,... 