 | William Eusebius Andrews - Christianity - 1853 - 678 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, nor...their 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 devastating... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - Wensleydale (England) - 1854 - 366 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." (1) Innumerable works of art were destroyed, and magnificent specimens of architecture were defaced... | |
 | James Wayland Joyce - Religion - 1855 - 796 pages
...to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor the English people under the Danes and Normans, had...time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities.1" A defence of the In defence of the destruction... | |
 | James Townley - Bible - 1856 - 610 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... | |
 | Edward Edwards - Libraries - 1859 - 898 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, nor...seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this BOOK "• 1 • • Chapter VIII. wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of Eng- р»»о1и«опипье... | |
 | John Beswicke Greenwood - 1859 - 282 pages
...store enough for many years to come. I shall 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." Thus perished, no doubt, many valuable documents and muniments of title belonging to the great Priory... | |
 | John Beswicke Greenwood - 1859 - 286 pages
...store enough for many years to come. I shall 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." Thus perished, no doubt, many valuable documents and muniments of title belonging to the great Priory... | |
 | Edward Edwards - Libraries - 1859 - 902 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, nor...such damage of their learned monuments as we have LIBRARIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES. gli»h| ries- and •"»«'"sion of their Idbr"ries on the same subject.... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1859 - 902 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, nor...such damage of their learned monuments as we have ny on the same subject. seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this BOOK "• * * Chapter VIII.... | |
 | Edward Edwards - Libraries - 1859 - 940 pages
...Saxons, nor yet the |rWrj»l<' iiri^l/'r fhc (Mne« and Normans, had ever ilitlfinj/*' of f.hcir (corned monuments as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this BOOK "• 1 " • Chapter VIII. wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of Eng- Dissolution... | |
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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... 
