In the days of Alfred the Great

328 Pages·1900·19.61 MB·English

by  Eva March Tappan

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IN THE DAYS
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PREFACE
SHARING in the special interest in Alfred the
Great that is aroused by the near approach of the
one thousandth anniversary of the last year of his
life, I have found it a real pleasure to write this
story of a "blameless king." However faulty it
may be, it is, at least, the result of a thoughtful
study of his character, and an earnest effort to
be as accurate as the scantiness of material and
the thousand years' interval would permit.
Little of the legendary, less of the miraculous,
has obscured the fame of the real Alfred. His
deeds are his own, great in themselves, greater
in that they are the manifestation of the thought
of a great mind. E.ven.in."ttitifiercelightwhich
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beats upon a throve,?it; js;h?ird to find a flaw in
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the character of' this ^nan who believed in God,
this king who/fiOTer. ?ajik(i to do his best.
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EVA MARCH TAPPAN.
WORCESTER,
April, 1900.