Alfred the West Saxon: King of EnglishJ. M. Dent & Company, 1901 - 376 pages |
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Alfred the West Saxon, King of the English (Classic Reprint) Dugald Macfadyen No preview available - 2015 |
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able Æthelbald Æthelwulf Alfred's reign army Asser Athelney battle Bishop Boethius called camp campaign Chapter character Charles Charles the Bald Christ Christian Church command court Danes Danish doom duty ealdorman earls East England East English enemy England English Chronicle Ethelred Exeter fact famous fight force fortress fyrd gathered gave gesiths gifts give God's Guthrum hand holy honour host hundred HYDE ABBEY interest judge justice kind King Alfred king's kingdom land later learned live London Lord Mercia mind monastery monks nation natural noble Northmen Northumbria oaths organisation origin pagans peace Pope probably recognised religion Roman Rome royal ruler saint seems servants ships shire spirit St Cuthbert story Stubbs Thames thee thegns things thou tion took tradition translated turned unto victory warrior Wessex West Saxon Wiking William of Malmesbury Winchester wisdom wise Witan words
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Page 197 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 59 - A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 188 - Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat — one Who can rule and dare not lie.
Page 59 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Page 305 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 89 - WELL for him whose will is strong ! He suffers, but he will not suffer long ; He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong : For him nor moves the loud world's random mock, Nor all Calamity's hugest waves confound, Who seems a promontory of rock, That, coirpass'd round with turbulent sound, In middle ocean meets the surging shock, Tempest-buffeted, citadel-crown'd.
Page 59 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Page 188 - 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 250 - 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 that 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 205 - I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant Land.