 | Reinhold Pauli - 1853 - 600 pages
...worthily ; but as all virtue and power are nothing without wisdom, the results of folly must be useless. " This I can now truly say, that so long as I have lived...death to leave my memory to my descendants in good works3." This confession of the king and hero is so noble and so great, that until the latest times... | |
 | Reinhold Pauli - 1853 - 606 pages
...worthily ; but as all virtue and power are nothing without wisdom, the results of folly must be useless. " This I can now truly say, that so long as I have lived...worthily, and after my death to leave my memory to iny descendants in good works 3 ." find in these records of Alfred's own thoughts, but one example... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1856 - 552 pages
...Saxon, who, in no boastful spirit, wrote of himself: — " This I can now truly say, that so long as I lived I have striven to live worthily, and after my...leave my memory to my descendants, in good works." The character of Alfred has a strong hold upon our affections ; and much of this may proceed from the... | |
 | John Frazer Corkran - 1859 - 344 pages
...all truth, and in no boastful spirit, he could write, " This I can now truly say, that, so long as I lived, I have striven to live worthily, and after...leave my memory to my descendants in good works." He was succeeded by his son Edward. ANGLO-SANON SOCIETY. The long Saxon anarchy had effaced Roman civilisation,... | |
 | HENRY INCE - 1860 - 326 pages
...honour to this great Saxon king,—one too, who, in no boastful spirit, wrote of himself: " This I can truly say, that so long as I have lived, I have striven...leave my memory to my descendants in good works." He was succeeded by his son, EDWABD THE ELDEB, who was crowned at Kingston, in Surrey. This was a turbulent... | |
 | Henry Ince - 1864 - 310 pages
...honour to this great Saxon king, — one too, who, in no boastful spirit, wrote of himself: " This I can truly say, that so long as I have lived, I have striven...leave my memory to my descendants in good works." He was succeeded by his son, EDWARD THE ELDER, who was crowned at Kingston, in Surrey. This was a turbulent... | |
 | 1901 - 998 pages
...should we now see around us I And he speaks of himself with pardonable satisfaction. " This," he says, " I can now truly say : that so long as I have lived I have striven to work worthily ; and after my death to leave my memory to my descendants in good works." The creation... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1869 - 362 pages
...whatsoever is done through folly no one can ever reckon for craft. This I will now truly say, that while I have lived I have striven to live worthily, and after my life to leave to the men who were after me my memory in good works." I could not touch the passage... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1872 - 596 pages
...At last its hour came ; but when Canute founded a Danish dynasty he and his Danes were Christians. " This I can now truly say, that so long as I have lived...leave my memory to my descendants in good works." If he did not found a university or a polity, he restored and perpetuated the foundations of English... | |
 | William Smith - 1873 - 396 pages
...that thousand years, the secret alike of his greatness and his goodness, in these simple words : — " This I can now truly say, that so long as I have lived...leave my memory to my descendants in good works." Alfred died on the 28th of October, 901, being only fiftytwo years old, and was buried at Winchester.... | |
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This I can now truly say, that so long as I have lived I have striven to live worthily, and after my death to leave my memory to my descendants in good works2. 
