 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1868 - 422 pages
...were fought in the defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by adversity, never lifted...there is no other name in history to compare with his. . . . And he was specially happy in handing on a large share of his genius and his virtue to those... | |
 | Christianity - 1868 - 512 pages
...were fought in the defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by adversity, never lifted...to insolence in the day of triumph. — there is no name in history to compare with his. St. Lewis cornea nearest to him in the union of a more than monastic... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1870 - 382 pages
...wars were fought in defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by adversity, never lifted up to insolence in the day of triumph, that there is no other name in history to compare with his.' * Yet more ; Alfred the Great can see... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Anglo-Saxons - 1870 - 448 pages
...were fought in the defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by adversity, — never lifted up to insolence in the day of triumph. He asserts that no other name is comparable to his. Saint Lewis of France — he who perished in an... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - Great Britain - 1873 - 564 pages
...were fought in the defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty,3 a prince never cast down by adversity, never lifted up to insolence in the hour of triumph — there is no other name in history to compare with his. Saint Lewis comes nearest... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell- Langmead - 1875 - 876 pages
...wars were fought in defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by adversity, never lifted...there is no other name in history to compare with him.' — Norm. Conq. i. 51. the threefold sovereignty of the West Saxons, Mercians, and Northumbrians.1... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - World history - 1876 - 514 pages
...were fought in the defense of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by adversity, never lifted...there is no other name in history to compare with his.11 — Freeman.— The Norman Conquest. 2. Battle oi' Hastings (p. 160, ^ 5). — " Perceiving... | |
 | English periodicals - 1902 - 550 pages
...wars were fought in defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by adversity, never lifted up to insolence in the hour of triumph.' And from these and other aspects of Alfred's life suitable homiletic lessons are... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1877 - 558 pages
...conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by adversity, never lified up to insolence in the day of triumph, there is no other name in history to compare with his." — Freeman.— The Nownan Conquest. 2. Battle ol" Hastings (p. 160, 1 5).—" Perceiving that open... | |
 | 1879 - 214 pages
...were fought in the defense of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by adversity, never lifted...there is no other name in history to compare with his. III. The Great Old English Kings. GUIDE ANALYSIS. I. EDWARD THE ELDER. 1. Henewed Invasion of the Danes.... | |
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A saint without superstition, a scholar without ostentation, a warrior all whose wars were fought in the defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast down by adversity, never lifted up to insolence... 
