 | Thomas Northcote Toller - English language - 1900 - 316 pages
...is done by folly, that no man can ever account as a craft. To be brief, I desired to live honourably while I lived, and after my life to leave to the men that were after me a memorial of me in good works. 4. Besides these works, mostly, though not entirely,... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - Antiquities - 1900 - 408 pages
...be without wisdom. . . . This is now especially to be said, that I wished to live honourably whilst I lived, and, after my life, to leave to the men who were after me my memory in good works." (To be continued.) ftatbarine in art, anD IRttual. BY J. LEWIS... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - Antiquities - 1901 - 452 pages
...first place, a question of personality. He has stamped his character on the cold annals of humanity. From another point of view we behold in his" career...Englishman of whom it is recorded that he never knew that he was beaten. Sometimes the Danes crushed him, sometimes he crushed the Danes ; but he won in... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - Antiquities - 1901 - 402 pages
...character. Note first his absorbed devotion to duty. " This will I say," he writes, " that I have sought lo live worthily while I lived, and after my life to...Englishman of whom it is recorded that he never knew that he was beaten. Sometimes the Danes crushed him, sometimes he crushed the Danes ; but he won in... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...whatsoever is done through foolishness no one can ever call work. Now would I say briefly that I have wished to live worthily while I lived, and after my life to leave to men who should come after me my memory in good deeds. (From the Dt Consolatioite Pliihscfiliia.} Alfred's... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 654 pages
...can ever reckon for craft. This is now especially to be said : that I wished to live honorably whilst I lived, and after my life to leave to the men who were after me, my memory in good works. ALFRED'S PREFACE TO THE VERSION OF POPE GREGORY'S " PASTORAL... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 456 pages
...can ever reckon for craft. This is now especially to be said : that I wished to live honorably whilst I lived, and after my life to leave to the men who were after me, my memory in good works. ALFRED'S PREFACE TO THE VERSION OF POPE GREGORY'S " PASTORAL... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...whatsoever is done through foolishness no one can ever call work. Now would I say briefly that I have wished men who should come after me my memory in good deeds. (From the De Consolatioiu Philosefhitr.) Alfred's... | |
 | Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - Literature - 1902 - 592 pages
...acquisition of knowledge cannot even now be conceived. " I have wished to live worthily," said he, " while I lived, and after my life, to leave to the men who should come after me, my remembrance in good works." PERIOD SECOND. FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO THE... | |
 | Alfred Bowker - 1902 - 356 pages
...his will and testament he says of himself: " This I will say, that I have sought to live worthily the while I lived, and after my life to leave to the men that came after me, a remembering of me in good works." We should indeed be ungrateful if we forgot... | |
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... any craft, without wisdom. Because whatsoever is done through folly, no one can ever reckon for craft. This is now especially to be said ; that I wished to live honourably whilst I lived, and after my life to leave to the men who were after me, my... 
