Today's installment concludes Alfred the Great's Reign,the name of our combined selection from Thomas Hughes and John R. Green. The concluding
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Cynicism found no echo in the large and sympathetic temper of Alfred.Continuing Alfred the Great's Reign,our selection from The Conquest of
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By the treaty Alfred is thus established as King of the whole of England south of the Thames; of all the old kingdom of Essex south of the Lea,
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When David smote the children of Moab, he "measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death
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That Alfred's soul was on fire that morning, on finding himself once more at the head of a force he could rely on and before the enemy he had met so
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A popular legend is found in the later chroniclers which relates that at this crisis of his fortunes Alfred.Continuing Alfred the Great's
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The monkish legend goes on to tell that on the next morning the King crossed to the mainland in a boat.Continuing Alfred the Great's Reign,with a
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in those miserable days the commonest necessaries of life were hard enough to come by for the King and his few companions.Continuing Alfred the
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First a dense fog and then a great storm came on, bursting on the south coast with such fury that the pagans lost no less than one hundred of their