 | 1905 - 786 sivua
...Alexandrian library to destruction was ever such a wanton crime against civilization perpetrated. " Neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor...yet the English people under the Danes and Normans," is the lament of Bishop Bale,(2) "had ever such damage of their learned monuments as we have seen in... | |
 | 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§§— 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... | |
 | 1884 - 460 sivua
...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... | |
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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... 
