Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The History of Great Britain, From the First Invasion of It by the Romans Under Julius Cesar, Vol. 4: Written on a New Plan
It is in vain to feck for learning, or learned men, among the Saxons, at their arrival in Bri tain. For though they were not abfolute {tran gers to the ufe of letters; yet, like all the other northern nations, they were fo much addicted to plundering and piratical expeditions, that they utterly defpifed the peaceful purfuits of fcience'
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