Alfred the West Saxon: King of EnglishJ. M. Dent & Company, 1901 - 376 pages |
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... leave no time for courting public notice , and the things done in secret , though visible in their results , baffle the biographer . Such lives may be rescued and enshrined ix by diligence and love ; and if they are presented.
... leave no time for courting public notice , and the things done in secret , though visible in their results , baffle the biographer . Such lives may be rescued and enshrined ix by diligence and love ; and if they are presented.
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... Asser is very doubtful himself about dates and numbers in the story : he says " twelve years old or more , " and he leaves it doubtful how many sons were concerned in the mother's offer . I 2 The Child and his Forbears.
... Asser is very doubtful himself about dates and numbers in the story : he says " twelve years old or more , " and he leaves it doubtful how many sons were concerned in the mother's offer . I 2 The Child and his Forbears.
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... leave the field where his prince lay , a foot's - breadth . He broke through the shield - wall , and , before he lay with the corpses , fought until he had worthily avenged the treasure - giver among the sea - warriors . So also did ...
... leave the field where his prince lay , a foot's - breadth . He broke through the shield - wall , and , before he lay with the corpses , fought until he had worthily avenged the treasure - giver among the sea - warriors . So also did ...
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... leaves the next to speak for itself . At another time , when ' the servant had presented a dish to the king at ' table , which contained two very large fishes , ' besides one somewhat smaller , he gave it to the ' Master ( for by that ...
... leaves the next to speak for itself . At another time , when ' the servant had presented a dish to the king at ' table , which contained two very large fishes , ' besides one somewhat smaller , he gave it to the ' Master ( for by that ...
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... Leaving the account of the wedding to come in its proper place , this is what Asser records of the period of Alfred's youth : " If I may be allowed to speak briefly of his zealous piety to God in the flower of his youth , before he ...
... Leaving the account of the wedding to come in its proper place , this is what Asser records of the period of Alfred's youth : " If I may be allowed to speak briefly of his zealous piety to God in the flower of his youth , before he ...
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Page 207 - 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 190 - 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 61 - 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 207 - And let them judge the people at all seasons : and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge : so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
Page 321 - 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 91 - 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 61 - 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 190 - 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 61 - 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 221 - 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.