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" This I can now truly say, that so long as I have lived I have striven to live worthily, and after my death to leave my memory to my descendants in good works2. "
Great and good; or, Alfred the father of his people [by D. Alcock]. - Sivu 58
tekijä(t) Deborah Alcock - 1864
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How to Get Strong and how to Stay So

William Blaikie - 1899 - 586 sivua
...built up his general health that he was able to stand the unusual strain. At his death he said : " So long as I have lived, I have striven to live worthily." And who will not agree with him ? And that he succeeded too ? Is it not strange that he a thousand years...

Bostonia, Niteet 1–3

1900 - 350 sivua
...also I am known." And here are the last written words of King Alfred that we can accept as genuine : " This I can now truly say, that so long as I have lived...leave my memory to my descendants in good works." As we recall what fell from the whitening lips of our stricken President that black hour in the city...

A Short History of England: For School Use

Katharine Coman, E. K. Kendall - 1901 - 524 sivua
...if any man had a just claim against him, it should be paid in full. He had been true to his ideal. " So long as I have lived, I have striven to live worthily,...leave my memory to my descendants in good works." SECTION 3. ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE REIGN Alfred is the only one of the long line of English kings who has...

A History of the English Church: Hunt, W. The English church from its ...

William Richard Wood Stephens, William Hunt - 1901 - 482 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...

A Perfect Prince: The Story of England a Thousand Years Ago

Frederic B. Jeffery - 1901 - 168 sivua
...into which he interpolates this, inter alia, personal remark : ' This I will now truly say, that as long as I have lived I have striven to live worthily, and after my life to leave to the men that come after me a remembering of me in good works.' Many a time have I...

The Middle Ages

Philip Van Ness Myers - 1902 - 506 sivua
...chronicle5 of his reign." 120. King Alfred's Character. — "This I can now truly say," wrote Alfred, " that so long as I have lived I have striven to live...leave my memory to my descendants in good works." It is not strange that the memory of a sovereign whose life was shaped by such a sentiment should be...

Mediæval and Modern History: The Middle Ages

Philip Van Ness Myers - 1902 - 504 sivua
...chronicle 5 of his reign." 120. King Alfred's Character. — "This I can now truly say," wrote Alfred, " that so long as I have lived I have striven to live...leave my memory to my descendants in good works." It is not strange that the memory of a sovereign whose life was shaped by such a sentiment should be...

Transactions, 1898-1905

Hampstead Antiquarian and Historical Society - 1902 - 110 sivua
...directed it. " This I can now truly say," he says in one of his Boethius interpolations, " that as long as I have lived, I have striven to live worthily, and after my death to leave to posterity a remembrance of mo in good works." There we have the very voice of him ; he opens his...

First Steps in the History of England

Arthur May Mowry - 1902 - 338 sivua
...Though always sickly and in constant pain, he was ever busy, planning the welfare of his people. " So long as I have lived, I have striven to live worthily," was what he himself said at the end of his life. Alfred saw that England, in time of war, had most...

English & American Literature, Studies in Literary Criticism ..., Nide 8

Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 sivua
...not hesitate to work with his own hands. The purpose of his life, expressed in his own words, was : "This I can now truly say, that so long as I have...leave my memory to my descendants, in good works." tnan two centuries after the death William the Conqueror of Alfred occurred an event which again revolutionized...




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