 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1869 - 566 pages
...when 878~894. he came to the throne " Learning had fallen to so low a depth among the English nation that there were very few on this side of the Humber who were able to understand their church ritual, or to translate an epistle out of Latin into English :... | |
 | John Sherren Brewer - 1873 - 288 pages
...perpetuated without their aid. " So completely," says King Alfred, " had learning perished from the land, that there were very few on this side of the Humber who could explain their Common Prayers in the English tongue, or translate any Latin passage into English ; —... | |
 | William Stubbs - 1875 - 656 pages
...bishops or ealdormen. record that when he came to the throne there were none south days of of the Thames who could understand their rituals in English, or translate a letter from the Latin ; very few south of the Humber and not many beyond1. The monasteries still stood with their... | |
 | Brother Azarias - 1879 - 226 pages
...the evil. " So general was the decay of learning," says he, " that there were very few on this' side the Humber who could understand their rituals in English...translate a letter from Latin into English ; and I believe there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few of them that I can not remember a single one... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 260 pages
...had been broken up, and very few of the clergy were scholars. Alfred said of the clergy that " thera were very few on this side of the Humber who could understand their service in English, or translate an epistle out of Latin into English ; and I think there were not... | |
 | 1885 - 474 pages
...of Gregory, though in this treatise Alfred does not say there was no grammar school. All he says is that there were very few on this side of the Humber who were able to understand their service in English, or even to turn a letter from Latin into English... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1898 - 538 pages
...how we must now get them from without if we would have them. So utterly had it (learning) fallen away in England that there were very few on this side of the Humber who could understand their service-books in English, or even put a letter from Latin into English; and I think there were not... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1901 - 200 pages
...and how they prospered both with war and with wisdom ; and also the sacred orders, how zealous they were both in teaching and learning and in all the...translate a letter from Latin into English ; and I believe there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few of them that I cannot remember a single one... | |
 | Dugald Macfadyen - 1901 - 450 pages
...and how they prospered both with war and with wisdom : and also the sacred orders, how zealous they were both in teaching and learning and in all the...translate a letter from Latin into English : and I believe there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few of them that I cannot remember a single one... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 456 pages
...in search of wisdom and instruction and how we should now have to get them from abroad if we would have them. So general was its decay in England that...translate a letter from Latin into English ; and I believe there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few that I cannot remember a single one south... | |
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England that there were very few on this side of the Humber who could understand their rituals in English or translate a letter from Latin into English ; and I believe there were not many beyond the Humber. 
