 | Boethius - 1900 - 324 pages
...I think there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few of them that I cannot call to mind a single one south of the Thames, when I succeeded to the throne. . . . Thinking over all this, I remembered also how I had seen, before the country was all... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...a letter from Latin into English ; and I think there were not many beyond Humber. So few were there should be, shall I not Feel all I see, less dazzling,...bodiless thought? the Spirit of each spot? Of whic now have any supply of teachers. And therefore I command you to do as I believe you will, that is to... | |
 | D. N. Dumville - 1992 - 218 pages
...that there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few of them that I cannot even recollect a single one south of the Thames when I succeeded to the kingdom.' evidence provided by books imported to St Cuthbert's community in the course of the tenth century.15... | |
 | Derek Baker - 1995 - 278 pages
...that there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few of them that I cannot even recollect a single one south of the Thames when I succeeded to the kingdom. Thanks be to God Almighty that we now have any provision of teachers. . . . When I remembered all this, I also remembered... | |
 | Barbara Yorke - 1995 - 383 pages
...translate a single letter from Latin into English . . . There were so few of them that I cannot recollect even a single one south of the Thames when I succeeded to the kingdom.1 A certain amount of hyperbole must be allowed for here,2 but Alfred's statement receives... | |
 | Antonia Gransden - 1996 - 563 pages
...English, and I think there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few of them that I cannot recall even a single one south of the Thames when I succeeded to the kingdom.'28 There is the problem whether the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was written at the command of Alfred.29... | |
 | David Frame Johnson, Elaine M. Treharne - 2005 - 432 pages
...there were not many beyond the Humber. So few of them were there, moreover, that 1 cannot think of a single one south of the Thames when I succeeded to the kingdom. Specific geographical details in the two passages paint first a lively portrait crowded with successful... | |
 | Michael Lapidge - 2004 - 530 pages
...that there were not many beyond the Humber either. There were so few of them that I cannot recollect even a single one south of the Thames when I succeeded to the kingdom' 6. Although these words have been suspected of being rhetorical exaggeration7, I see no reason not... | |
 | R. H. C. Davis - 1991 - 348 pages
...think that there were not many beyond the Humber. There were so few of them that I cannot recollect a single one south of the Thames when I succeeded to the Kingdom.1* For us perhaps the most interesting fact about this statement is that all modern scholars... | |
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I cannot recollect even a single one south of the Thames when I succeeded to the kingdom. 