 | Alfred Young - Christian sociology - 1894 - 660 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 or... | |
 | William Roberts - Bibliomania - 1895 - 380 pages
...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, unless they be stayed in time.' Fuller, in his ' Church History of Britain,' quotes Bale's lamentation,... | |
 | Alfred Young - Christian sociology - 1895 - 648 pages
...paper for the space of these ten years, and yet he hath store for as many years to come. Our postf rity may well curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." A writer in the Letters of Eminent Persons from the Bodleian says : " Whole libraries were destroyed... | |
 | Alfred Wesley Wishart - Monasteries - 1900 - 482 pages
...were often insolent and cruel in the prosecution of their work. " Our posterity," says John Bale, " may well curse this wicked fact of our age ; this...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." " On the whole," says Blunt, " it may be said that we must ever look back on that destruction as a... | |
 | Alfred Wesley Wishart - Monasteries - 1900 - 476 pages
...were often insolent and cruel in the prosecution of their work. " Our posterity," says John Bale, " may well curse this wicked fact of our age ; this...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." " On the whole," says Blunt, " it may be said that we must ever look back on that destruction as a... | |
 | Clarence Griffin Child - 1904 - 144 pages
...many years to come. 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...their learned monuments as we have seen in our time. all, fortunately, were lost. John Leland, the King's Antiquary, saved as many manuscripts as his opportunities... | |
 | Clarence Griffin Child - 1904 - 128 pages
...to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britaius under the Romans and Saxons, iior yet the English people under the Danes and Normans,...their learned monuments as we have seen in our time. Not all, fortunately, were lost. John Leland, the King's Antiquary, saved as many manuscripts as his... | |
 | Clarence Griffin Child - Dragons - 1904 - 128 pages
...years to come. I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britains juder the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people...and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned Vionuments as we have seen in our time. v£^ Not all, fortunately, were lost. John Leland, the King's... | |
 | Jean Mary Stone - English literature - 1905 - 464 pages
...? I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the Romans, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." excellent books, to the unspeakable detriment of the learned world. For a time, this havoc of the monastic... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - Renaissance - 1914 - 768 pages
...many years to come. 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...their learned monuments as we have seen in our time." It used to seem some condonation of these sad evils to say that the suppression of the monasteries... | |
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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... 
