 | Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812 - 528 pages
...had laid in ashes all the schools and seminaries of learning. To remedy this evil, he invited over the most celebrated scholars from all parts of Europe. He established schools every where ; he founded, or at least re-established, the university of Oxford, and endowed it with... | |
 | Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812 - 524 pages
...had laid in ashes all the schools and seminaries of learning. To remedy this evil, he invited over the most celebrated scholars from all parts of Europe. He established schools every where; he founded, or at least re-established, the university of Oxford, and endowed it with... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, John Millard - 1813 - 712 pages
...remain as free as their own thoughts.' Id. Alfred gave great encouragement to the pursuit of learning. He invited the most celebrated scholars from all parts of Europe; — he established schools every where for the instruction of the ignorant ; — he founded, or at least repaired, the university... | |
 | 1816 - 758 pages
...him.' " Alfred (see 1 Hume, 76, edition of 1782), complained that on his accession he knew not oue person south of the Thames who could so much as interpret the Latin service ; but in the ' Encomium Emmie,' which seems to have been written about the year 1040, there are, as... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 470 pages
...government, and from the ravages of the Danes. He himself complains that, on his accession, he knew not one person south of the Thames who could so much as interpret the Latin service. To remedy this deficiency, he. invited over the most celebrated scholars from all parts of Europe;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 398 pages
...restrain the barbarous habits of the people. He himself complains, that on his accession he knew not one person south of the Thames, who could so much as interpret the Latin service. To remedy this deficiency, he invited over the most celebrated scholars from all parts of JKurope :... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett - 1825 - 480 pages
...erudition in those ages were totally subverted. Alfred himself complains, that on his accession he knew not one person, south of the Thames, who could so much as interpret the Latin service ; and very few in the northern parts, who had even reached that pitch of erudition. But this prince invited over the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 780 pages
...government, and from the ravages of the Danes. He himself complains, that, on his accession, he knew not one person south of the Thames, who could so much as interpret the Latin service. To remedy this defieiency, he invited over the most celehrated scholars from all parts of Europe ;... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1826 - 462 pages
...you will say they were much in want; as he complains that he knew not one person at his acccession south of the Thames who could so much as interpret the Latin service/ and very few in the north. He founded, or at least restored, a school or university at Oxford ;b he invited over... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1826 - 450 pages
...you will say they were much in want; as he complains that he knew not one person at his acccession south of the Thames who could so much as interpret the Latin service/ and very few in the north. He founded, or at least restored, a school or university at Oxford ;b he invited over... | |
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Alfred himself complains, that on his accession he knew not one person, south of the Thames, who could so much as interpret the Latin service; and very few in the northern parts, who had reached even that pitch of erudition. 
