 | History - 1803 - 598 pages
...that we are despisers of learning. I shall judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons, under the Romans and Saxons,...our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fael: of our age : this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." posed a book of like... | |
 | Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1809 - 244 pages
...by the space of more than these ten years; and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." I have heard, that the fine collection of manuscripts, belonging to the cathedral church of Durham,... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 590 pages
...abroad, that we are dcpisers of learning? I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor...their learned monuments as we have seen in our time." " But Bale is not alone in this charge ; Fuller breaks out into a passionate declamation upon this... | |
 | James Townley - Bible - 1821 - 570 pages
...been made to keep dirt \vithin it ; yea, the fflsemen of Gotham, bound up in the Wisdomeof Solomon. neither the Britons, under the Romans and Saxons ;...wicked fact of our age ; this unreasonable spoil of EnglantTs most noble antiquities. What soul can be so frozen, as not to melt into anger hereat ? What... | |
 | John Strype - 1821 - 556 pages
...the grave " seniors of other nations. And that neither the Britons " under the Romans and Saxons, nor the English people " under the Danes and Normans,...their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time. n Bale, an This Bale, by reason of the dangers of the professors of Ťarci™rof tne re for me d religion... | |
 | John Strype - 1821 - 558 pages
...the grave " seniors of other nations. And that neither the Britons " under the Romans and Saxons, nor the English people " under the Danes and Normans,...their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time." Bale, an This Bale, by reason of the dangers of the professors of scarchc^of tne reforme(l religion... | |
 | Charles Butler - Catholics - 1819 - 476 pages
...paper. 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 Nor" mans, had ever such damage of their learned " monuments, as we have, in this our time. Our * Declaration... | |
 | Charles Butler - Church and state - 1822 - 540 pages
...grey paper. I judge this to " be true,—and utter it with heaviness,—that nei" ther the Britains, under the Romans and Saxons; ^ nor yet the English...such damage of their learned " monuments, as we have, in this our time. Our *' posterity may well curse the wicked fall of our " age ; this unreasonable... | |
 | 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§S— 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'jljl — by the menace of Colleges, as if, in the words of Bishop Ridley, ' there seemed a design... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 876 pages
...enough for as many years to come. I shall judge this to he true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under tlie Dines and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments as we have seen in our time."... | |
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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. Our posterity... 
