 I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, — that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time. Our posterity...  Review of Fox's Book of Martyrs - Page 163by William Eusebius Andrews - 1826Full view - About this book
 | 1905 - 786 pages
...and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans," is the lament of Bishop Bale,(2) "had ever such damage of their learned monuments as we have seen in our times." (3) " Many an ancient manuscript Bible," is the complaint of Fuller, " was cut in pieces to... | |
 | Archaeology - 1884 - 460 pages
...Britons under the Romans «id Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans ever have such damage of their learned monuments as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked act of outrage, this unreasonable spoil of England's most... | |
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