 | Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1824 - 546 pages
...King Edward upon the subject, he says, " I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons, under the Romans and Saxons,...of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our tunes. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's... | |
 | Thomas Thompson - Monasteries - 1824 - 302 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."* Fuller, in his history of abbeys, expresses himself in equally strong language on the irreparable loss... | |
 | 1824 - 812 pages
...King Edward upon the 'subject, he says, ' 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, nnder the Danes and Normans, had ever sncli damage of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our... | |
 | Charles Butler - Great Britain - 1825 - 376 pages
...I judge it to be true," says the most anti-catholic Bale *, " and I utter it " with heaviness, that neither the Britons under " the Romans and Saxons,...such damage of their learned monuments, as we " have at thig our time. Our posterity may well " curse the wicked fall of our age ; this unreason" able sport... | |
 | Charles Butler - Great Britain - 1825 - 372 pages
...judge it to be true," says the most anti-catholic Bale*, '•' and I utter it " with heaviness, that neither the .Britons under " the Romans and Saxons,...such damage of their learned monuments, as we " have at this our time. Our posterity may well " curse the wicked fall of our age ; this unreason" able sport... | |
 | Charles Butler - Great Britain - 1825 - 788 pages
...I judge it to be true," says the most anti-catholic Bale *, " and " I utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons " under the Romans and Saxons,...and Normans, " had ever such damage of their learned monu" ments, as we have at this our time. Our pos* Declaration upon Li land's Journal, am1. 1549; Fuller's... | |
 | Edward Hatton - 1826 - 274 pages
...abroad that we are despisers of learning ? I judge this to be true, and titter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities.' Now what soul can be so frozen (continues Mr. Fuller) as not to melt into anger hereat ? What heart,... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1826 - 446 pages
...abroad, that we are despisers of learning? I judge this ta be " true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the " Romans and Saxons,...learned monuments, as we " have seen in our time." (John Bale's declaration on Leland's Journal, ' an. 1549.^ Fuller, too, has borne testimony to the... | |
 | Henry Soames - 1826 - 688 pages
...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." Hist. of Abbeys, 335. countries thus adorned, England still remains proudly conspicuous ; and yet the... | |
 | Henry Soames - 1826 - 682 pages
...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 age,...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." Hist. of Abbeys, 335. countries thus adorned, England still remains proudly conspicuous; and yet the... | |
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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... 
