 | 1829 - 446 sivua
...by the 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." The fine collection of manuscripts belonging to the cathedral church of Durham, was saved by being... | |
 | William Trollope - 1834 - 546 sivua
...despisers of Learning ? I judge this to be true, and utter it with heavinesse, that neither the Britains, under the Romans and Saxons ; nor yet the English...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." * Such is the honest rebuke of a writer, who was no friend to the monasteries ; and even Fuller forgets... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 364 sivua
...by the 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."* In descanting upon this momentous change in the frame of our ecclesiastical polity, Burnett does, however,... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1837 - 564 sivua
...than to have it noised abroad, that we are despisers of learning ? I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, — that neither the Britons under...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."* 4. Learning receiveth ah incurable Wound by the Loss of Books. What soul can be so frozen, as not to... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1837 - 562 sivua
...than to have it noised abroad, that we are despisers of learning ? I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, — that neither the Britons under...unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."* 4. Learning receiveth an incurable Wound by the Loss of Books. What soul can be so frozen, as not to... | |
 | 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 - 1839 - 602 sivua
...churches§8— -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'KJI — by the menace of Colleges, as if, in the words of Bishop Ridley, ' there seemed a design... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - 1840 - 552 sivua
...than to have it noised 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 the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - 1840 - 550 sivua
...than to have it noised 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 the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1844 - 122 sivua
...grocers and soap-sellers; at times, they sent whole ships full abroad." He adds — "Our posterity will curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities." The primary erection of Christian Monasteries, was the result of persecution. To save life, many of... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1845 - 576 sivua
...to have it noised abroad that we " are despisers of learning ? I judge this to be true, " and utter it with heaviness, that neither the " Britons under...may " well curse this wicked fact of our age, this un" reasonable spoil of England's most noble anti" quities." Learning 4. What soul can be so frozen... | |
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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... 
