| Alexander Hugh Hore - 1891 - 578 sivua
...himself to the good of his country and his endeavour was to live wholly for the good of his people. " So long as I have lived, I have striven to live worthily ; " such was his noble boast. On his wedding-day he was struck down by a painful disease, from which... | |
| Montague John Guest - 1893 - 618 sivua
...fully peopled ; that he should have prayermen, and army-men, and work-men. . . . This I can now most truly say, that so long as I have lived I have striven to live worthily, and ai'ter my life to leave to the men that should be after me a remembrance of me in good works." Surely... | |
| Reinhold Pauli - 1893 - 628 sivua
...worthily ; but as all virtue and power are nothing without wisdom, the results of folly must be useless. "This I can now truly say, that so long as I have lived I have strivento live worthily, and after my death to leave my memory to my descendants in good works2." This... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 sivua
...native tongue. He died in 901. The governing purpose of his life he pointed out in a single sentence : " This I can now truly say, that so long as I have lived,...leave my memory to my descendants in good works." In him the Anglo-Saxon stock reached its highest development. His character was based on a profound... | |
| Fannie Harris Shakelford - 1894 - 220 sivua
...found that the days of the years of his life were numbered, in Christian resignation he wrote, "I can truly say that so long as I have lived I have striven to live worthily, and to leave my memory to my people, and to my descendants in good works. " Let the memory of Alfred the... | |
| Edward Boucher James - 1896 - 714 sivua
...' a man shall know whether he does right, and he will then require no other law-book.' ' This I can truly say. that so long as I have lived I have striven...leave my memory to my descendants in good works.' These are the words of great and good King Alfred, who reformed, restored, and perpetuated the Church... | |
| Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1898 - 372 sivua
...his time could cure, he died in the year 901. Just before he breathed his last, King Alfred said : " This I can now truly say : that so long as I have...leave my memory to my descendants in good works." It is because Alfred lived worthily that he has always been honoured as England's greatest king ; and... | |
| Frederic J. Webb - 1898 - 436 sivua
...girl, that he had been faithful as a friend, and a saying of King Alfred's came into his mind, " As long as I have lived, I have striven to live worthily," and with this he shook oft his momentary weakness and springing up, determined, as he had tried to live,... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 sivua
...native tongue. He died in 901. The governing purpose of his life he pointed out in a single sentence : " This I can now truly say, that so long as I have lived,...leave my memory to my descendants in good works." In him the Anglo-Saxon stock reached its highest development. His character was based on a profound... | |
| William Hunt - 1899 - 476 sivua
...words with which he ends a short statement of his theory of a king's duty : " This I can truly now say, that so long as I have lived I have striven to live worthily, and after my life to be remembered by posterity for good works." His desire that his people should learn to look... | |
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