 I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons, under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time.  The book of the Axe - Page 415by George Philip R. Pulman - 1875 - 906 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Clarence Griffin Child - Dragons - 1904 - 128 pages
...by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britains juder the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - Renaissance - 1914 - 728 pages
...many years to come. I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britains under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people...their learned monuments as we have seen in our time." It used to seem some condonation of these sad evils to say that the suppression of the monasteries... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - Renaissance - 1914 - 768 pages
...by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britains under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever... | |
 | 1916 - 880 pages
...by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britains under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever... | |
 | 1905 - 786 pages
...Alexandrian library to destruction was ever such a wanton crime against civilization perpetrated. " Neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor...yet the English people under the Danes and Normans," is the lament of Bishop Bale,(2) "had ever such damage of their learned monuments as we have seen in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...churches§§— the destruction of libraries, so that by Beale's unsuspicious declaration, ' neither Britain under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people...Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments ;'||j| — by the menace of Colleges, as if, in the words of Bishop Ridley, ' there seemed a design... | |
 | Archaeology - 1884 - 460 pages
...Britons under the Romans «id Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans ever have such damage of their learned monuments as we have...our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked act of outrage, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."1 John Aubrey also, our... | |
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