Book 2, Chapter 5, 878 AD to 901 AD – Alfred’s Educational Efforts
When I thought earnestly upon this subject, I began to wonder greatly that those illustrious scholars who, in by gone days, flourished in England, and who so thoroughly understood those works of learning which were within their reach, never translated any part of them into their native tongue. But I soon answered myself and said, that these, our ancestors, never thought that any of their descendants would be so reckless, or that learning would ever have so much fallen, and so intentionally omitted the translation of any of those writings, in order that more languages might be known by our countrymen. Then it came into my mind that the law of God was first revealed in the Hebrew tongue, and that after the Greeks had learned it, they turned it, together with many other books, into their own language, and the Latin men likewise, when they had learned it, they, by wise interpreters, turned it into their own tongue, and in like manner, almost every Christian people have caused Bomb part of it to be translated into their own language.
Chapter 5, Alfred’s Fortifications
Alfred’s Measures for the Defence of the Country
Chapter 5, Revolt in the Danelagh
Chapter 5, Alfred’s Educational Efforts
Hume’s Estimate of Alfred
His care for Internal Prosperity of the Country
His Computation and Division of Time
Chapter 5, Alfred’s Industry and Zeal
Chapter 5, Saxon Laws
Alfred’s Watchfulness over the Executive
Chapter 5, Summary of Alfred’s Character
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