 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 458 pages
...this more fully to those who are ignorant, I will relate the cause of this long delay in beginning. " On a certain day we were both of us sitting in the...read to him a quotation out of a certain book. He listened to it with the utmost attention, and addressed me with a thoughtful mind, shewing me at the... | |
 | Albrecht von Baron HALLER - 1849 - 388 pages
...may explain this more fully to those who are ignorant, I will relate the long delay in beginning. " On a certain day we were both of us sitting in the...read to him a quotation out of a certain book. He listened to it with the utmost attention, and addressed me with a thoughtful mind, showing me at the... | |
 | Alfred (King of England) - 1852 - 596 pages
...this more fully to those who are ignorant, I will relate the cause of this long delay in beginning. On a certain day we were both of us sitting in the...a book which he carried in his bosom, wherein the duily courses and psalms, and prayers which he had read in his youth, were written, and he commanded... | |
 | 1857 - 830 pages
...fi-om the twentieth to the forty-fourth year of his age. ' On a certain day,' says his biographer, ' we were both of us sitting in the king's chamber,...read to him a quotation out of a certain book. He listened to it attentively with both his ears, and addressed me with a thoughtful mind, showing me... | |
 | Alfred (King of England) - 1858 - 596 pages
...this more fully to those who are ignorant, I will relate the cause of this long delay in beginning. On a certain day we were both of us sitting in the...it attentively with both his ears, and addressed me wilh a thoughtful mind, showing me at the same moment a book which he carried in his bosom, wherein... | |
 | Alfred (King of England) - 1858 - 596 pages
...this more fully to those who are ignorant, I will relate the cause of this long delay in beginning. On a certain day we were both of us sitting in the...all kinds of subjects as usual, and it happened that 1 read to him a quotation out of a certain book. He heard it attentively with both his ears, and addressed... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1870 - 448 pages
...of worldly wealth, which he fears to recount, lest it should weary the reader. He continues : — ] On a certain day we were both of us sitting in the king's chamber, conversing on all kinds of subjects, as usual, and it happened that I read to him a quotation out of... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1900 - 408 pages
...activities in the realm of letters of the inauguration of which Asser gives the following account : "On a certain day we were both of us sitting in the...moment a book which he carried in his bosom, wherein were written the daily courses and psalms and prayers which he had read in his youth, and he commanded... | |
 | John William Edward Conybeare - 1900 - 260 pages
...kinds of subjects, as was our wont. And it chanced that I recited to him a quotation [testimonium] from a certain book. He heard it attentively with both his ears, and pondered it deeply in his heart. Then suddenly showing me a book which he carried in his bosom, wherein... | |
 | Dugald Macfadyen - 1901 - 426 pages
...lost Handbook or commonplace book whose origin Asser describes, or, at least, one of its successors. "On a certain day we were both of us sitting in the...a certain book. He heard it attentively with both ears, and addressed me with a thoughtful mind, showing me at the same time a book which he carried... | |
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On a certain day we were both of us sitting in the king's chamber, talking on all kinds of subjects, as usual, and it happened that I read to him a quotation out of a certain book. He heard it attentively with both his ears, and addressed me with a thoughtful... 
