The Story of King AlfredD. Appleton, 1901 - 187 pages |
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... Learning flourished and was held in honour ; there was a learned clergy within and without the monasteries ; there was a noble literature in verse ; music and singing were the accomplishments learned by every one ; the arts , especially ...
... Learning flourished and was held in honour ; there was a learned clergy within and without the monasteries ; there was a noble literature in verse ; music and singing were the accomplishments learned by every one ; the arts , especially ...
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... learning , arts , freedom , safety -nothing was left to the unhappy land , except terror , blackened ruins and the memory of peace . CHAPTER II . CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION . ALFRED was the ENGLAND IN THE NINTH CENTURY . 47.
... learning , arts , freedom , safety -nothing was left to the unhappy land , except terror , blackened ruins and the memory of peace . CHAPTER II . CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION . ALFRED was the ENGLAND IN THE NINTH CENTURY . 47.
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... have been one of his greatest difficulties and impediments in this life , namely , that when he was young and had the capacity for learning , he could not find teachers ; but , when he was more advanced CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION . 51.
... have been one of his greatest difficulties and impediments in this life , namely , that when he was young and had the capacity for learning , he could not find teachers ; but , when he was more advanced CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION . 51.
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... learning and letters . We may find also in the story a tradition of Osburh's love for learning , and her desire that her children should be educated . It has been suggested that instead of Osburh we should read Judith , the child - wife ...
... learning and letters . We may find also in the story a tradition of Osburh's love for learning , and her desire that her children should be educated . It has been suggested that instead of Osburh we should read Judith , the child - wife ...
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... learning that was assembled in that court ? which of the scholars talked to him ? which of them in- structed him ? what notice was likely to be taken in that great court of a child in the nursery ? what his nurse and the women in the ...
... learning that was assembled in that court ? which of the scholars talked to him ? which of them in- structed him ? what notice was likely to be taken in that great court of a child in the nursery ? what his nurse and the women in the ...
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ALFRED'S WARS Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Chronicle army arrived arts Asser Athelney Athelstan battle became Bishop Boethius Bowker's Alfred Britons brother called ceorl Cerdic Charles the Bald Christian Chronicle Church coast conquest court Danes Danish death desire Divine Earl East Anglia Edward enemy England English Ethelbald Ethelred Ethelwulf faith fighting fleet forests fought fyrd heathen holy honour Judith Kent King Alfred King Alfred's King of Mercia king's kingdom knew land laws learning London ment Mercia mind MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL monastery monks nation night ninth century noble Norsemen Northumbria Orosius Osburh pagans peace pilgrim Plegmund plunder poetry Pope prayer queen reign religion river Roman Rome royal scholars seems ships slain STORY OF KING Thames thanes thee thegn things thou tion town walls Welsh Wessex West Saxons whole Winchester winter quarters wisdom words
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Page 152 - 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. There were so few of them that I cannot remember a single one south of the Thames when I came to the Throne.
Page 167 - 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 mind, showing me at the same moment a book which he carried in his bosom, wherein the daily courses and psalms, and prayers which he had read in his youth, were written, and he commanded me to write the same quotation in that book.
Page 171 - ... during the frequent wars and other trammels of this present life, the invasions of the pagans, and his own daily infirmities of body, continued to carry on the government, and to exercise hunting in all its branches ; to teach his workers in gold and artificers of all kinds, his falconers, hawkers and dog-keepers; to build houses, majestic and good, beyond all the precedents of his ancestors, by his new mechanical inventions...
Page 142 - Keep ye the Law — be swift in all obedience — Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown ; By the peace among Our peoples let men know we serve the Lord!
Page 52 - He was loved by his father and mother, and even by all the people, above all his brothers, and was educated altogether at the court of the king. As he advanced through the years of infancy and youth, his form appeared more comely than that of his brothers; in look, in speech, and in manners he was more graceful than they. His noble nature implanted in him from his cradle a love of wisdom above all things...
Page 149 - But those things which I met with, either of the days of Ine, my kinsman, or of Offa, King of the Mercians, or of JEthelbryht, who first among the English race received baptism, those which seemed to me the Tightest, those I have gathered together, and rejected the others.
Page 98 - Aller, near Athelney, and there king Alfred, receiving him as his son by adoption, raised him. up from the holy laver of baptism on the eighth day, at a royal...
Page 34 - War was no sooner over than the warrior settled down into the farmer, and the home of the peasant churl rose beside the heap of goblinhaunted stones that marked the site of the villa he had burned.
Page 80 - West-Saxons, came to the royal city, called Reading, situated on the south bank of the Thames, in the district called Berkshire ; and there, on the third day after their arrival, their earls, with great part of the army, scoured the country for plunder...