Capitolo 44
but there were a certain conscientiousness and the gentleness of spirit
what marked his/her character also in these first years, and it seemed to
defend him/it from the harmful influences that the indulgence and extreme
attention and care often the production. Alfred was thoughtful, you calm, and
reflexive; he improved the rights that he enjoyed, and it didn't do
you misuse the gentleness and the favors that every one from who he was known
lavished on him.
To Alfred it liked the Anglo-Saxon poetry that abounded in those
days. The poems were legends, you dance, and histories that described the
enterprises of heroes and the adventures of pilgrims and vagabond of
some the son-in-laws. These poems were to Alfred that al which you/they were the poems of Homer
Alexander. He loved to listen to them, to feel recited them to memory, and to
commit them to memory. In to commit them to memory, he was forced to
depends to the I feel the poems repeated by others, for him he was able
not the reading.
And now he was still twelve years old. You/he/she can surprise the reader,
perhaps, to be said so, later everybody of what the they have been said
attention paid to the education of Alfred, and of the progress that he had
it did, that he could not also read. But reading, away from the being then
considered, as now it is, an essential attainment for everybody and one
what we am sure of discovery possessed by everybody that has received some
education anything, was concerned in those days a kind of technician
art, only learned by those that were to use of the professional one of
the acquisition. Monks and employees could always read, but generals,
gentlemen and king very rarely. And as they could not read, neither
it was able them they write. They made an ill-mannered cross at the end of the writings
what they desired to authenticate instead of signing their names--a
way that he/she remains a present day, although the is come down
classes lower and humbler than society.
In fact, the superior classes of society could not generally learn also
light in those days, anybody books were for there. Every thing recorded