 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1811 - 844 pagina’s
...and which I here subjoin at full length; from my first edition of this work : — ' Never (says Bale) had we been offended for the loss of our LIBRARIES,...the chief monuments and most notable works of our excellent writers had been preserved. If there had been in every shire of England, but one SOLEMPNE... | |
 | Edward Hatton - 1826 - 274 pagina’s
...witha perfect hatred, complained hereof to King EdwardVl. 1 Never had we been offended,' says he, ' for the loss of our libraries, being so many in number,...monuments and most notable works of our most excellent writers had been reserved. If there had been in every shire in England but one solemn library to the... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1842 - 790 pagina’s
...some of our old libraries must endear his memory to every honest bibliographer : " Never (says he) had we been offended for the loss of our LIBRARIES,...the chief monuments and most notable works of our excellent writers had been reserved. If there had been in every shire of England, but one SOLEMPNE... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1847 - 362 pagina’s
...Marsham calls him,t and learn to do justice to the calumniated religious, and to their barbarous enemies. Never had we been offended for the loss of our libraries,...monuments and most notable works of our most excellent writers had been reserved. If there had been in every shire of England, but one solemn library for... | |
 | John Wallis - 1847 - 492 pagina’s
...On the destruction of the monastic libraries, Bale, a strenuous enemy to the monks, observes : — " Never had we been offended for the loss of our libraries,...so many in number and in so desolate places for the most part, if the chief monuments and most notable works of our most excellent writers had been reserved.... | |
 | John Wallis - 1847 - 488 pagina’s
...On the destruction of the monastic libraries, Bale, a strenuous enemy to the monks, observes :—" Never had we been offended for the loss of our libraries,...so many in number and in so desolate places for the most part, if the chief monuments and most notable works of our most excellent writers had been reserved.... | |
 | 1850 - 234 pagina’s
...so-called Reformation :* they must * Bale, the Protestant Bishop of Ossory says on this subject: — " Never had we been offended for the loss of our libraries,...monuments and most notable works of our most excellent writers had been reserved. If there had been in every shire of England but one solemn library to the... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pagina’s
...common, even fastened with gold or silver chains. — (Philip Bliss, Oxen.) EARLY ENGLISH LIBRARIES. Never had we been offended for the loss of our libraries, being so many in number, aud in so desolate places for the most part, if the chief monuments and most notable works of our excellent... | |
 | Christopher Barker - 1859 - 126 pagina’s
...and a strenuous opponent of the monks, thus deplores the loss of their books : — " Never (says he) had we been offended for the loss of our libraries...many in number, and in so desolate places for the most part), if- the chief monuments and most notable works of our excellent writers had been reserved... | |
 | Christopher Barker (of Huddersfield.) - 1859 - 122 pagina’s
...strenuous opponent of the monks, thus deplores the loss of their books : — " Never (says he) had \ve been offended for the loss of our libraries (being...many in number, and in so desolate places for the most part), if the chief monuments and most notable works of our excellent writers had been reserved... | |
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Never (says he) had we been offended for the loss of our LIBRARIES, being so many in number, and in so desolate places for the more part, if the chief monuments and most notable works of our excellent writers had been reserved. If there had been in every... 
