Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . a degreerarely experienced by literature. It was when he wassent on an embassy from King Offa to Kome, in 782,that he met Charlemagne at Pavia, who begged himto take the leadership of the palatial school he had foundedfor the sons of Frankish noblemen. He thus becameone of the most prominent members of that circle ofgreat men which, with Charlemagne as its centre, stoodat the head of the whole religious and civilising move-ment of the age. The emperor employed him several times on pohticalmissions, bub his pr
Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . a degreerarely experienced by literature. It was when he wassent on an embassy from King Offa to Kome, in 782,that he met Charlemagne at Pavia, who begged himto take the leadership of the palatial school he had foundedfor the sons of Frankish noblemen. He thus becameone of the most prominent members of that circle ofgreat men which, with Charlemagne as its centre, stoodat the head of the whole religious and civilising move-ment of the age. The emperor employed him several times on pohticalmissions, bub his proper place was as the religious counsellorof the king, and in this field his influence was 790 he went to France, and settled there, retiring Text when he was made Emperor of Rome, saying: Nothing appearedmore worthy of your peaceful Honour than tlie gift of the Sacred Scrip-tures, which by the dictation of the Holy Ghost and the mediation of ChristGod were written with the pen of celestial grace for the salvation ofmankind.—Historical Curiosities, C. J. m SEVENTH AND EIGHTH CENTURIES—ALCUIN 123 to the Abbey of St. Martin at Tours, where he died 804. Whilst the emperor delighted to honourhim, he had a large retinue, and was blamed once bya Spanish ecclesiastic for the number of his did not contradict the fact, but denied that it hadcorrupted his simplicity, saying, It is one thing to possessthe world ; it is another to be possessed by it. In fact,to the end, he always called himself the humble , as Peter Ramus has said, Britain was twice school-mistress to France : first by the Druids, and then bythis York scholar, whose name was Latinised to FlaccusAlbinus. He was a poet as well as a scholar, and some-times rhymes in his Latin verses, of one of which thisis a translation :— The House of God. Who seeks to enter Heavens expanded GatesMust oft within these sacred walls attend;Here is the Gate of everlasting bliss,The path of
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