 | 1916 - 880 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. Such was the Reformation's gift to education. And so the Library of the Monastery of Syon disappeared... | |
 | Francis Borgia Steck - Reformation - 1920 - 364 pages
...Great, indeed, must have been the havoc, if a contemporary like Bale did not hesitate to declare, ' ' Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our...age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."10 Already during the preceding reign, the royal visitors had laid hands on the valuable... | |
 | Tse-Chien Tai - Library education - 1925 - 276 pages
...wondering of the foreign nations. ... I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness — that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." 1 . . . This devastation of monastic libraries and manuscripts, coupled with the protests and lamentations... | |
 | Archaeology - 1884 - 460 pages
...Britons under the Romans «id Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans ever have such damage of their learned monuments as we have...our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked act of outrage, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."1 John Aubrey also, our... | |
 | Francis Grose - England - 1782 - 370 pages
...that we are despisers of learning. I shall judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons, under the Romans and Saxons,...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." io6 laws ; add to which the monastic estates were generally let at very easy rents, the fines given... | |
 | 1916 - 926 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. Such was the Reformation's gift to education. And so the Library of the Monastery of Syon disappeared... | |
 | Women - 1821 - 682 pages
...monastic institutions, yet he thus expresses himself on this occasion—" 1 utter it with heaviness, that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor...such damage of their learned monuments as we have in this our time. Our posterity may well curse the wicked fall of our age; this unreasonable sport... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...churches§§— 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 ;'||j| — by the menace of Colleges, as if, in the words of Bishop Ridley, ' there seemed a design... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - Natural history - 1884 - 864 pages
...store enough for many years to come." "Never," says he, and he "uttered it with heaviness," "did either the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans ever have such damage of their learned monuments as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well... | |
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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... 
