 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1797 - 414 pages
...encouragement of learning did not a little tend to improve the morals and reftrain the barbarous habits of the people. When he came to the throne, he found the Englifh funk into the groflelr ignorance and barbarifin, proceeding from the continued diforders of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 396 pages
...encouragement of learning did not a little tend to improve the morals and reftrain the barbarous habits of the people. When he came to the throne, he found the Englilh funk into the groil'eft igno. lance and barbarifm, proceeding from the continued diforders... | |
 | 1808 - 540 pages
...by his natural bent and propensity towards letters. When he came to the throne, he found the nation sunk into the grossest ignorance and barbarism, proceeding from the continued disorders in the government, and from the ravages of the Danes : the monasteries were destroyed , the monks butchered... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 540 pages
...na- y^^^, tural bent and propensity towards letters. When he came to the throne, he found the nation sunk into the grossest ignorance and barbarism, proceeding from the continued disorders in the government, and from the ravages of the Danes: The monasteries were destroyed, the monks butchered... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 396 pages
...encouragement of learning did not a little tend to improve the morals and restrain the barbarous habits of the people. When he came to the throne, he found...complains, that, on his accession, he knew not one person C south of the Thames who could so much as interpret the Latin service. Ta remedy this deficiency,... | |
 | Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812 - 528 pages
...encouragement of learning did not a little contribute to improve the morals and restrain the barbarous habits of the people. When he came to the throne, he found...barbarism, proceeding from the continued disorders in the government, and from the ravages of the Danes, who had laid in ashes all the schools and seminaries... | |
 | Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812 - 524 pages
...encouragement of learning did not a little contribute to improve the morals and restrain the barbarous habits of the people. When he came to the throne, he found...barbarism, proceeding from the continued disorders in the government, and from the ravages of the Danes, who had laid in ashes all the schools and seminaries... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 400 pages
...encouragement of learning did not a little tend to improve the morals and restrain the barbarous hahits of the people. When he came to the throne, he found the English sunk'into the grossest ignorance and barbarism, proceeding from the continued disorders of the government,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 340 pages
...restrain the barbarous habits of the people. 27. When he came to the throne, he found the English sunk ia the grossest ignorance and barbarism, proceeding from...the government, and from the ravages of the Danes. 28. He himself complains, that on his accession he knew not one person south of the Thames who could... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - 1824 - 568 pages
...common law. To encourage learning among his subjects was. no less; the care of this illustrious prince. When he came to the throne, he found the English sunk into the grossest ignorance. Alfred himself complains, that on his accession he did not know one person south of the Thames, who... | |
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When he came to the throne, he found the nation sunk into the grossest ignorance and barbarism, proceeding from the continued disorders in the government, and from the ravages of the Danes : the monasteries were destroyed, the monks butchered or dispersed,... 
