 | 1864 - 190 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,...time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of fur age, this unreasonable spoil of Englanafs most noble antiquities." (John Bale, Declaration in Leland's... | |
 | S Hubert Burke - 1870 - 780 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...posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age; this lamentable destruction of England's most noble antiquities." Bale's evidence becomes more important... | |
 | James Stockdale - Cartmel (England : Parish) - 1872 - 640 pages
...by the space of more than these ten years, and yet he hath store enough for as many years to come. Neither the Britons, under the Romans and Saxons,...their learned monuments as we have seen in our time." It was the custom in every English Abbey of royal foundation to appoint one of the Monks to the office... | |
 | Catholic literature - 1875 - 400 pages
...we are despisers of learning ? I judge this to be true,. and utter it with heaviness, that neither Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." (Bale's Declaration upon Leland's Journal, on IS49-) COLLIER.—" Fuller breaks out into a passionate... | |
 | George Philip R. Pulman - Axe, River (Dorset-Devon, England) - 1875 - 962 pages
...price—a shame it is to be spoken. . . I shall judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor...Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age—this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." : The following is a translation... | |
 | Mary Charlotte Stapley - England - 1875 - 542 pages
...this to be true, and utter it with heaviness that neither the Britons under the Romans or Saxons, nor the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned manuscripts as we have seen in our time. Our posterity," he concludes, "may well curse this wicked... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - Architecture - 1886 - 584 pages
...who had his part in the Dissolution, "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." Proofs almost numberless remain in volumes scattered from the Continental monasteries in recent years... | |
 | James Frothingham Hunnewell - Architecture - 1886 - 600 pages
...who had his part in the Dissolution, " 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 uuder the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments as we have seen in our... | |
 | John H. Lloyd (of Highgate.) - Highgate (London, England) - 1888 - 552 pages
...about that we are dispersers of learning ? I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness : that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor...under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage to their learned monuments as we have seen in our times. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact... | |
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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... 
