"The character of the ancient Saxons displayed the qualities of fearless, active, and successful pirates. It is not me…"

"Woden was the great ancestor from whom they deduced their genealogies. It will be hereafter shown that the calculatio…"

"Nothing is more curious nor more interesting in history than to remark that when great political exigencies occur, wh…"

"The reign of Alfred, from his restoration to his death, was wise and prosperous. One great object of his care was, to…"

"If we had no other evidence of the political wisdom of our Gothic or Teutonic ancestors than their institution of the…"

"War and religion were the absorbing subjects of this period, and all the imagination, and feeling, and thought which …"

"The first edition was published as early as 1805; and though for the edition of 1807 the work was carefully revised, …"

"Among many historical efforts, principally concerning England in different periods, his History of the Anglo-Saxons s…"

"One of the best writers, of the most learned antiquarians and most enlightened scholars of his time."

"Turner's History of England down to the Lives of the Tudors, is replete with Anglo-Saxon and other ancient learning; …"