 | Universalism - 1879 - 544 pages
...instead of gray paper for the space of these ten years, and yet he hath store for as many years to come. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities.' " A writer in the Letters of Eminent Persons from the Bodleian says : " ' Whole libraries were destroyed... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1844 - 122 pages
...grocers and soap-sellers; at times, they sent whole ships full abroad." He adds — "Our posterity will curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." The primary erection of Christian Monasteries, was the result of persecution. To save life, many of... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1845 - 568 pages
...that we " are despisers of learning ? I judge this to be true, " and utter it with heaviness, that neither the " Britons under the Romans and Saxons,...may " well curse this wicked fact of our age, this un" reasonable spoil of England's most noble anti" quities." Learning 4. What soul can be so frozen... | |
 | 1845 - 780 pages
...Churchesj-f — 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 ;'JJ — by the menaces of Colleges, as if, in the words of Bishop Ridley, ' there seemed a design... | |
 | Civilization - 1846 - 506 pages
...that we are despisers of learning ? I shall judge this to he true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." THE ABBOT OF READING. " King Henry VIII., as he was hunting in Windsor Forest, either casually lost,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1846 - 502 pages
...shall judge this to be true, aud utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the 1 tomans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." THE ABBOT OF READING. " King Henry VIII., as he was hunting in Windsor Forest, either casually lost,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...that we are despisers of learning? I shall judge this to he true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." THE ABBOT OF READING. — King Henry VIII., as he was hunting in Windsor Forest, either casually lost,... | |
 | James Townley - Bible - 1847 - 620 pages
...bound up in the ' Wisdome of Solomon.' . , I judge this to be true, and utter it with heavinesse, that neither the Britons, under the Romans and Saxons ;...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities. What soul can be so frozen, as not to melt into anger hereat ? What heart having the least spark of... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Catholics - 1847 - 362 pages
...abroad that we are despisers of learning ? I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons, under the Romans and Saxons,...wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of ifnyland's most noble antiquities."* " ' The monks,' says another writer, 'were formerly the greater... | |
 | Leicester Buckingham - Bible - 1853 - 322 pages
...hath store for as manyyears to come. I judge this to be a truth, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor...age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."7 Such avowals from the pens of Protestant writers, render needless the demonstration... | |
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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... 
