Alfred the West Saxon: King of EnglishJ. M. Dent & Company, 1901 - 376 pages |
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... fill the lamps on Easter Eve and at cock - crow : and one hundred mancuses for the universal Pontiff . " 1 A mancus was more than the third of a pound . There is some evidence to show that Æthelwulf was a 6 The Child and his Forbears.
... fill the lamps on Easter Eve and at cock - crow : and one hundred mancuses for the universal Pontiff . " 1 A mancus was more than the third of a pound . There is some evidence to show that Æthelwulf was a 6 The Child and his Forbears.
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King of English Dugald Macfadyen. There is some evidence to show that Æthelwulf was a man of wider vision than most of his con- temporaries , and that he entertained a far - reaching scheme for combined action between England and the ...
King of English Dugald Macfadyen. There is some evidence to show that Æthelwulf was a man of wider vision than most of his con- temporaries , and that he entertained a far - reaching scheme for combined action between England and the ...
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... shows us Osburh as a woman with the instinct and interest of a thoughtful mother , with her children about her , quick to encourage the effort of an awakening faculty , with some interest herself in books and skilled workmanship . Such ...
... shows us Osburh as a woman with the instinct and interest of a thoughtful mother , with her children about her , quick to encourage the effort of an awakening faculty , with some interest herself in books and skilled workmanship . Such ...
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... show that it is an advantage that the future king should at least appear to stand a some- what remote chance of succession , and that his future destiny should not be too obviously in the foreground . To have the throne , at least ...
... show that it is an advantage that the future king should at least appear to stand a some- what remote chance of succession , and that his future destiny should not be too obviously in the foreground . To have the throne , at least ...
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... show forth my lineage to all , that I was of high race in Mercia . My old father was called Ealhhelm , a wise ealdorman , worldly prosperous . Never shall the thegns reproach me among the people , that I would desert this host , and ...
... show forth my lineage to all , that I was of high race in Mercia . My old father was called Ealhhelm , a wise ealdorman , worldly prosperous . Never shall the thegns reproach me among the people , that I would desert this host , and ...
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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.