Baeda

Persons commit suicide by slaying each other in time of famine; while in England (so Baeda tells) they

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Placed upon the pavement, his head supported in his scholar's arms, his face turned to the spot where he was wont to pray, Baeda chaunted the solemn "Glory to God."

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It is hard to imagine how, among the toils of the schoolmaster and the duties of the monk, Baeda could have found time for the composition of the numerous works that made his name famous in the West.

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The quiet grandeur of a life consecrated to knowledge, the tranquil pleasure that lies in learning and teaching and writing, dawned for Englishmen in the story of Baeda.

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Nation, 'Baeda was at once the founder of medieval history and the first

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"It is easily done," said Baeda; "take thy pen and write quickly."

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Baeda longed to bring to an end his version of St. John's Gospel into the English tongue, and his extracts from Bishop Isidore.

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In treatises compiled as text-books for his scholars, Baeda threw together all that the world had then accumulated in astronomy and meteorology, in physics and music, in philosophy, grammar, rhetoric, arithmetic, medicine.

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Baeda -- the venerable Bede as later times styled him -- was born about ten years after the Synod of Whitby, beneath the shade of a great abbey which Benedict Biscop was rearing by the mouth of the Wear.

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Not only does the original remain to us, but we have also two summaries of it, one longer, another shorter, made by Baeda, the Venerable Bede, as a useful manual for Englishmen, _Concerning the Holy Sites_.

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