A careful study of his Latin History, as the great literary monument of the Anglo-Saxon period, will disclose many important truths which lie beneath the surface, and thus escape the cursory reader.

Wars and politics, of which the Anglo-Saxon chronicle is full, find comparatively little place in his pages.

The Church was then peaceful, and not polemic; the monasteries were sanctuaries in which quiet, devotion, and order reigned.

Another phase of the literature shows us how the Gentiles raged and the people were imagining a vain thing; but Bede, from his undisturbed cell, scarcely heard the howlings of the storm, as he wrote of that kingdom which promised peace and good-will.
BEDE'S LATIN .-- To the classical student, the language of Bede offers an interesting study.

The Latin had already been corrupted, and a nice discrimination will show the causes of this corruption--the effects of the other living languages, the ignorance of the clergy, and the new subjects and ideas to which it was applied.
Bede was in the main more correct than his age, and his vocabulary has few words of barbarian origin.