King Alfred of England - Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

Capitolo 74

the scene to suffer from Regina Henrietta Maria, the mother of Charles
the Secondo. [1] The loss of this place was on a new and heavy cloud
Alfred's perspectives. It put the southern and whole coast of his/her kingdom in
the hands of his/her enemies, and it seemed to foretell for the whole inside
of the country one period of calamity without hope and irremediable.

It also seems from the various unequivocal affirmations and allusions,
contained in the accounts of the times, that Alfred didn't possess,
during this period of his/her kingdom, the respect and the affection of his
subjects. He is accused, or, rather, not directly the accused, but spoken
of as generally known to be guilty of a lot of guilts that alienated the
his/her farmers' hearts from him, and it prepared him to consider his
calamity as the judgments of Sky. He was young and ardent, full
of the young impetuosity and it shoots, and it was animate to his/her elevation to
the throne;  and, during the period while Danish left him/it alone,
under the essays he had done with Hubba, he was given above to
pleasure, and not always to like innocent. They debited him to Them, also,
with being him tyrannical and oppressive his/her government, being this way
devoted to gratifying his/her his/her own ambition and love of the personal indulgence
what he neglected his/her government, it sacrificed the affairs and the
welfare of his/her subjects, and it practiced a lot his/her regal powers in a
despotic and arbitrary way.

It is a lot of difficulty to decide, to this late day as far this
the disposition to find guilt with his of the first administration of Alfred
government rose from, or you/he/she had increased from, the adversities and
calamity that happened him. On the one hand, it would not be,
surprising if, young, and arduous, and impetuous as him it was to this
period of his/her life, he would be due to fall in the errors and guilts
what young monarchses are very prone to commit on to suddenly be
elevated to motorize. But men are on the other hand then, prone, in everybody
centuries of the world, and more especially in so ill-mannered and uncultivated
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