King Alfred: As Educator of His People and Man of Letters (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from King Alfred: As Educator of His People and Man of Letters The passages from the Orosz'us require no comment, but a large number have been made from that part of the Englz'sfz C/zrom'de which is generally supposed to have been the work of Alfred himself. Miss Warren has continued her extracts beyond the year 891, where in the chapter on Alfred I make his work to cease. I followed then what I considered the best authority, but I see no reason, if we believe that Alfred wrote the first part of the Danish wars, why we should not believe that he also wrote the second. The improvement in the style may be accounted for. Alfred, in these later years, had gained greater experience and ease in writing. There is no clear evidence that. He wrote any of this history, but it is a conjecture as probable as it is pleasant. It would suit Alfred's temper to record the wars he waged with so much fervour on behalf of his people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.