... when he had learned this book, and turned [it] from Latin into the English language, he afterwards composed it in verse, as it now is done. Alfred the great - Page 291by Thomas Hughes - 1869Full view - About this book
| Boethius, Alfred (King of England) - 1829 - 476 pages
...set word by word, sometimes meaning of meaning, as he the most plainly and most clearly could render it, for the various and manifold worldly occupations...difficult to be numbered, which in his days came upon the kingdoms which he had undertaken, and nevertheless, when he had learned this book, and turned it from... | |
| Boethius, Alfred (King of England) - 1829 - 486 pages
...calamities which attended the early part of his reign. According to his own account, it was amid " various and manifold worldly occupations which often busied him both in mind and in body," that he first translated it, in the form in which it appears in the present volume. The poetical versions... | |
| Boethius - 1835 - 160 pages
...it nearly approaches poetry. Alfred, it is supposed, wrote this portion when harassed with those " various and manifold worldly occupations, which often busied him both in mind and in body," of which he so feelingly complains. And when he had overcome the difficulties which beset him, it is... | |
| Anicius Manlius T.S. Boethius - 1835 - 166 pages
...it nearly approaches poetry. Alfred, it is supposed, wrote this portion when harassed with those " various and manifold worldly occupations, which often busied him both in mind and in body," of which he so feelingly complains. i&»d^hen he had overcome the difficulties which beset him, it... | |
| Boethius - 1835 - 164 pages
...it nearly approaches poetry. Alfred, it is supposed, wrote this portion when harassed with those " various and manifold worldly occupations, which often busied him both in mind and in body," of which he so feelingly complains. And when he had overcome the difficulties which beset him, it is... | |
| 1835 - 746 pages
...meea%. Ppy 56 eop pop aebelum. up ahebban nu. On J>eem mobe brS. raonna jehpilcum. ba piht aebelo. rious and manifold worldly occupations, which often busied him both in mind and in body," of which he so feelingly complains. When he had overcome the difficulties which beset him, it is supposed... | |
| 1841 - 474 pages
...set word by word, sometimes meaning of meaning, as he the most plainly and most clearly could render it for the various and manifold worldly occupations...which often busied him, both in mind and in body." Among other translations which Alfred made, that of the Ecclesiastical history of Bede deserves to... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1843 - 456 pages
...word by word, sometimes meaning of meaning, as he the most plainly and most clearly could 92 render it, for the various and manifold worldly occupations...difficult to be numbered which in his days came upon the kingdoms which he had undertaken ; and, nevertheless, when he had learned this book, and turned [it]... | |
| George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 900 pages
...rendei it, for the various and manifold worldly occupations which often busied him both in mind and body. The occupations are to us very difficult to be numbered, which in his days came upon the kingdoms which he had undertaken ; and nevertheless, when he had learned this book, and turned it from... | |
| Alfred (King of England) - 1852 - 552 pages
...worldly occupation* which often busied him both in mind and body. " The occupations,'' said he, " are very difficult to be numbered which in his days came upon the kingdoms which he had undertaken to govern ;" and on this account our wonder should be excited when... | |
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