The Story of King AlfredD. Appleton, 1901 - 187 pages |
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... thee plentifully and clothe thee richly . And thy days are long , and no night passes without some glimpse of light . " The Danes or Scandinavians were , like the men of Norway , akin to the Saxons , Jutes , and Angles . Many of their ...
... thee plentifully and clothe thee richly . And thy days are long , and no night passes without some glimpse of light . " The Danes or Scandinavians were , like the men of Norway , akin to the Saxons , Jutes , and Angles . Many of their ...
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... thee and over thy sons after thee . And now I will tell thee what thou must do . Rise up early in the morning , and blow thine horn thrice , that thy enemies may hear it and fear , and by the ninth hour thou shalt have around thee five ...
... thee and over thy sons after thee . And now I will tell thee what thou must do . Rise up early in the morning , and blow thine horn thrice , that thy enemies may hear it and fear , and by the ninth hour thou shalt have around thee five ...
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... thee that it has very often come into my mind what wise men there formerly were throughout England , both of sacred and secular orders ; and how happy times there were then throughout England ; and how the kings who had power over the ...
... thee that it has very often come into my mind what wise men there formerly were throughout England , both of sacred and secular orders ; and how happy times there were then throughout England ; and how the kings who had power over the ...
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... thee to do as I believe thou art willing , to disengage thyself from worldly mat- ters as often as thou canst , that thou mayest apply the wisdom which God has given thee wherever thou canst . Consider what punishments would come upon ...
... thee to do as I believe thou art willing , to disengage thyself from worldly mat- ters as often as thou canst , that thou mayest apply the wisdom which God has given thee wherever thou canst . Consider what punishments would come upon ...
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... thee glory ? Thou art not so . More men have pomp and glory and worship from the opinion of foolish people than they have from their own works . " They say a certain king cried : he had a naked sword hanging over his head by a small ...
... thee glory ? Thou art not so . More men have pomp and glory and worship from the opinion of foolish people than they have from their own works . " They say a certain king cried : he had a naked sword hanging over his head by a small ...
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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...