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" I considered all this I remembered also how I saw before it had been all ravaged and burnt, how the churches throughout the whole of England stood filled with treasures and books, and there was also a great multitude of God's servants, but they had very... "
The Story of King Alfred - Page 142
by Walter Besant - 1905 - 187 pages
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Anglo-Saxon period

Thomas Wright - 1842 - 576 pages
...God's servants, and yet they knew very little fruit of the books, because they could understand nothing of them, because they were not written in their own language ; as they say our elders, who held these places before them, loved wisdom, and through it obtained weal...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1843 - 746 pages
...God's servants, and yet they knew very little fruit of the books, because they could understand nothing of them, because they were not written in their own language; as they say our elders, who held these places before them, loved wisdom, and through it obtained weal...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 14; Volume 78

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1843 - 852 pages
...God's servants, and yet they knew very little fruit of the books, because they could understand nothing of them, because they were not written in their own language ; as they say our elders, who held these places before them, loved wisdom, and through it obtained weal...
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Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury ...

Walter Farquhar Hook - 1860 - 558 pages
...God's servants, and yet they knew very little fruit of the books, because they could understand nothing of them, because they were not written in their own language ; as they say our elders, who held these places before them, loved wisdom, and through it obtained weal,...
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Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury ...

Walter Farquhar Hook - 1861 - 530 pages
...God's servants, and yet they knew very little fruit of the books, because they could understand nothing of them, because they were not written in their own language ; as they say our elders, who held these places before them, loved wisdom, and through it obtained weal,...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...servants, and yet they knew very little fruit of the book«, because they could understand nothing of them, because they were not written in their own language ; as they say our elders, who held these places before them, loved wisdom, and through, it obtained weal...
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...Goil's servan's, and yet they knew very little fruit of the books, because they could understand nothing of them, because they were not written in their own language; as they say our elders, who held these placei before them, loved wisdom, and through it obtained weal...
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Alfred the great

Thomas Hughes - 1869 - 362 pages
...and also a great multitude of God's servants ; but they knew very little use of those books, for that they could not understand anything of them, because they were not written in their own language, such as they our elders spoke." The King goes on to wonder why those good and wise men, who loved wisdom...
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King Alfred's West-Saxon version of Gregory's Pastoral care ..., Volumes 1-2

Pope Gregory I - 1871 - 570 pages
...and books, and there was also a great multitude of God's servants, but they had very little knowledge of the books, for they could not understand anything...because they were not written in their own language. sie Sonc Ssetfte] we nu renignc on stal habbaS lareowa. & forSon ic Se bebiode Stet Su do swae ic geliefe...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 2; Volume 77

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...and books, and there was also a great multitude of God's sen-ants, but they had very little knowledge of the books, for they could not understand anything...forefathers, who formerly held these places, loved wiadom, and through it they obtained wealth and bequeathed it to us. In this we can still see their...
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