 | William Harrison Mace - United States - 1921 - 530 pages
...Besides the priests and monks very few could read that language. "I wondered extremely," said Alfred, "that the good and wise men who were formerly all...wish to translate them into their own tongue." He now began earnestly the work of making English books for his people. He translated a book containing... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...would not incline our hearts after their example." When I remembered all this. I wondered extremely Saxon family which had been long settled in Ireland,...and which had, like most other Protestant and Sax had not wished to translate them into their own language. But again I soon answered myself and said... | |
 | George Sampson - English literature - 1924 - 504 pages
...would not incline our hearts after their example.' When I remembered all this, I wondered extremely that the good and wise men who were formerly all over England, and had perfectly learnt all the books, did not wish to translate them into their own language. But again I soon answered... | |
 | Karen Louise Jolly - History - 1997 - 588 pages
...would not incline our hearts after their example." When I remembered all this, I wondered extremely that the good and wise men who were formerly all over England, and had learned perfectly all the books, did not wish to translate them into their own language. But again... | |
 | Kevin Crossley-Holland - Anglo-Saxons - 1999 - 324 pages
...would not incline our hearts after their example.' When I remembered all this, I wondered extremely that the good and wise men who were formerly all over...England, and had perfectly learned all the books, had not wished to translate them into their own language. But again I soon answered myself and said:... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1926 - 356 pages
...to have it, we can only get it from abroad. . . . When I remembered all this, I wondered extremely that the good and wise men who were formerly all over England, and had perfectly learnt all the books, did not wish to translate them into their own language. But again I soon answered... | |
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When I remembered all this, I wondered extremely that the good and wise men who were formerly all over England, and had perfectly learned all the books, did not wish to translate them into their own language. But again I soon answered myself and said... 
