 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 582 pages
...precedents of his ancestors, by his new mechanical inventions, to recite the Saxon books, and more especially to learn by heart the Saxon poems, and to make others learn them also; for he alone never desisted from studying, most diligently, to the best of his ability ; he attended... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 398 pages
...all its branches ; to teach his workers in gold and artificers of all kinds, his falconers, hawkers and dog-keepers ; to build houses, majestic and good,...them ; and he alone never desisted from studying most diligently to the best of his ability ; he attended the mass and other daily services of religion ;... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 pages
...all its branches ; to teach his workers in gold and artificers of all kinds, his falconers, hawkers and dog-keepers ; to build houses, majestic and good,...them ; and he alone never desisted from studying most diligently to the best of his ability ; he attended the mass and other daily services of religion ;... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1901 - 574 pages
...all its branches ; to teach his workers in gold and artificers of all kinds, his falconers, hawkers and dog-keepers ; to build houses, majestic and good,...and especially to learn by heart the Saxon poems, an I to make others learn them ; and he alone never desisted from studying, most diligently, to the... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1905 - 200 pages
...its branches ; to teach his workers in gold and artificers of all kinds, his falconers, his hawkers, and dogkeepers ; to build houses, majestic and good,...precedents of his ancestors, by his new mechanical inventiotis ; to recite the Saxon books, and especially to learn by heart the Saxon poems, and to make... | |
 | Dugald Macfadyen - 1901 - 450 pages
...illuminators, who may for convenience be classed together as artistic. There are also men employed to build houses " majestic and good, beyond all the...his ancestors, by his new mechanical inventions." There were the men employed "to drive the road and bridge the ford," the civil engineers of Alfred's... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1905 - 200 pages
...its branches ; to teach his workers in gold and artificers of all kinds, his falconers, his hawkers, and dogkeepers ; to build houses, majestic and good,...; and he alone never desisted from studying, most diligently, to the best of his ability." It would seem as if hunting was introduced here in a place... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - 1907 - 522 pages
...artificers of all kinds, his falconers, hawkers and dog-keepers; to build houses, majestic and splendid, beyond all the precedents of his ancestors, by his...and especially to learn by heart the Saxon poems, 1 This was, of course, not a school in the modern sense of the word. All that is meant is simply that... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 pages
...to teach his workers in gold and artificers of all kinds, his falconers, hawkers, and dog keepers; to build houses, majestic and good, beyond all the...mechanical inventions; to recite the Saxon books, and Alfred's reespecially to learn by heart the Saxon poems, and to make formsand others learn them. He... | |
 | George Frederick Bosworth - 1914 - 230 pages
...those of Wessex. Hence, when the time of peace gave him the opportunity, he at once set about building houses " majestic and good, beyond all the precedents...his ancestors, by his new mechanical inventions." Alfred's buildings may be classed under three divisions — domestic, religious, and military, and... | |
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... during the frequent wars and other trammels of this present life, the invasions of the pagans, and his own daily infirmities of body, continued to carry on the government, and to exercise hunting in all its branches; to teach his workers in gold and... 
