 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 792 pages
...said of Alfred the Great that "no other man on record has ever so thoroughly united all the virtues of the ruler and the private man. In no other man...were so many virtues disfigured by so little alloy." It may be truthfully said of ALPHEUS FELCH that in him have been united the virtues of the good citizen,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - Great Britain - 1867 - 758 pages
...fable. No other man on record has ever so thoroughly united all the virtues both of the ruler and of the private man. In no other man on record were so many virtues disfigured by so little alloy. 1 A saint without superstition, a scholar withafter some mythical patriarch. This last view will be... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - Great Britain - 1870 - 832 pages
...other man on record has ever so thoroughly united all virtues in the virtues both of the ruler and of the private man. In no other man on record were so many virtues disfigured by so CHARACTER OP ALFRED. 49 little alloy.1 A saint without superstition, a scholar with- CHAP. 11, out... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1870 - 382 pages
...— that of placing him on the highest pinnacle of honour, and proclaiming to the world that he was ' a saint without superstition, a scholar without ostentation, a warrior all whose wars were fought in defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - Great Britain - 1873 - 564 pages
...fable. No other man on record has ever so thoroughly united all the virtues both of the ruler and of the private man. In no other man on record were so many virtues disfigured by so little alloy.1 A saint without superstition, a scholar without ostentation, a warrior all whose wars were... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell- Langmead - 1875 - 876 pages
...provinces of England, 1 Dr. Freeman thus eloquently sums up the character of the great /Elfred : ' A saint without superstition, a scholar without ostentation, a warrior all whose wars were fought in defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - World history - 1876 - 514 pages
...fable. No other man on record has ever so thoroughly united all the virtues both of the ruler and of the private man. In no other man on record were so many virtues disfigured by so little alloy. A eaint .without superstition, a scholar without ostentation, a warrior all whose wars were fought in... | |
 | English periodicals - 1902 - 550 pages
...passage from Freeman's introduction to the History of the Norman Conquest, in which Alfred is called ' a saint without superstition, a scholar without ostentation, a warrior all whose wars were fought in defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1877 - 558 pages
...fable. No other man on record has aver so thoroughly united all the virtues both of the ruler and of the private man. In no other man on record were so...ostentation, a warrior all whose wars were fought in the defense of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty, a prince never cast... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - Great Britain - 1877 - 904 pages
...disfigured by so little alloy.1 A saint without superstition, FORMATION OF THE KINGDOM OP ENGLAND. CHAP. n. a scholar without ostentation, a warrior all whose...country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty,1 a prince never cast down by adversity, never lifted up to insolence in the hour of triumph... | |
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A saint without superstition, a scholar without ostentation, a warrior all whose wars 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 up to insolence... 
