Alfred the Great: The Truth Teller, Maker of England, 848-899, Opseg 10G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915 - Broj stranica: 493 |
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Stranica 465 - Alfred found learning dead and he restored it, Education neglected and he revived it, The laws powerless and he gave them force, The church debased and he raised it, The land ravaged by a fearful enemy From which he delivered it, Alfred's name will live as long As mankind shall respect the past.
Stranica 370 - To be brief, I may say that it has ever been my desire to live honourably while I was alive, and after my death to leave to them that should come after me my memory in good works.
Stranica 245 - Danish ships: they were almost twice as long as the others, some had sixty oars, some more...
Stranica 220 - Alfred the Great, AD 879, on this summit erected his standard against Danish invaders ; to him we owe the origin of juries, and the creation of a naval force. Alfred, the light of a benighted age, was a philosopher, and a Christian ; the father of his people, and the founder of the English monarchy and liberties.
Stranica 465 - The pillar bears the following inscription: " King Alfred the Great, in the year of our Lord 879, having been defeated by the Danes, fled for refuge to the forest of Athelney, where he lay concealed from his enemies for the space of a whole year. He soon after regained possession of his throne, and in grateful remembrance of the protection he had received, under the favour of Heaven...
Stranica 374 - ... with; and bow-timbers and bolt-timbers for every work that I could perform — as many as I could carry of the comeliest trees. Nor came I home with a burden, for it pleased me not to bring all the wood home, even if I could bear it. In each tree I saw something that I needed at home; therefore I exhort every one who is able, and has many wains, to direct his steps to the self-same wood where I cut the stud-shafts. Let him there obtain more for himself, and load his wains with fair twigs, so...
Stranica 196 - Prankish defence. When at last the incompetent Emperor Charles the Fat came to the relief of the beleaguered garrison, he sealed his own doom by concluding a disgraceful treaty with the invaders, and paying a heavy tribute of seven hundred pounds of silver. The vikings, permitted by this treaty to winter in Burgundy, only changed the scene of their depredations. They besieged Sens, and in the spring of 887 they again appeared in the Seine, and sailed up the Marne to Chezy; here, and in a camp near...
Stranica 370 - ... metrical translation of them, or rather a metrical elaboration of the old version, distinctly attributed to him by the writer of an anonymous preface. " These cares are very hard for us to reckon that in his days came upon the kingdoms to which he had succeeded, and yet when he had studied this book and turned it from Latin into English prose, he wrought it up once more into verse, as it is now done.
Stranica 287 - So has now the Almighty God very wisely, and very fitly appointed change to all his creatures. Thus spring and harvest. In spring it groweth, and in harvest it ripens. And again summer and winter. In summer it is warm, and in winter cold.
Stranica 458 - Scouring of the White Horse. Or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk. By the Author of