Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, with Sketches, Biographical and Literary ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... duke ; a duke as a king . Yet some goo about , and like to all manner state , and ben in no state for they that will take every degree , he of no degree . This information relative to the Manners of the Welch , is chiefly taken from ...
... duke ; a duke as a king . Yet some goo about , and like to all manner state , and ben in no state for they that will take every degree , he of no degree . This information relative to the Manners of the Welch , is chiefly taken from ...
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... duke of Lancas- ter , who had before procured for him the living of Lutterworth , in Leicestershire . As this prince , however , had patronised Wicliffe from political motives , he subsequently withdrew his patron- age on finding that ...
... duke of Lancas- ter , who had before procured for him the living of Lutterworth , in Leicestershire . As this prince , however , had patronised Wicliffe from political motives , he subsequently withdrew his patron- age on finding that ...
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... duke of Lancaster , that it was thrown out . Some of the followers of Wicliffe , encouraged by his success , undertook to review his transla- tion , or rather to make another , which was less literal , but more comformable to the sense ...
... duke of Lancaster , that it was thrown out . Some of the followers of Wicliffe , encouraged by his success , undertook to review his transla- tion , or rather to make another , which was less literal , but more comformable to the sense ...
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... duke of Lancaster , who subsequently became his constant friend and patron . In the year 1359 , he accompanied the expe- dition of Edward III . to France ; a fact which is concluded from the circumstance of his be- ing examined as a ...
... duke of Lancaster , who subsequently became his constant friend and patron . In the year 1359 , he accompanied the expe- dition of Edward III . to France ; a fact which is concluded from the circumstance of his be- ing examined as a ...
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... duke of Lancaster . The same year he was sent on a special mission to France , the object of which is unknown ; and three years after was associ- ated with sir James Pronan , vice - admiral of the Genoese auxiliaries , and John de Mari ...
... duke of Lancaster . The same year he was sent on a special mission to France , the object of which is unknown ; and three years after was associ- ated with sir James Pronan , vice - admiral of the Genoese auxiliaries , and John de Mari ...
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Seite 463 - He had a walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath Field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to preach before the king's majesty now.
Seite 436 - And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Seite 259 - ... and thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword; and thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights; and thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Seite 463 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Seite 464 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece ; so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did of the said farm, where he that now hath it payeth sixteen...
Seite 252 - I, according to my copy, have done set it in imprint, to the intent that noble men may see and learn the noble acts of chivalry, the gentle and virtuous deeds that some knights used in those days, by which they came to honour; and how they that were vicious were punished and oft put to shame and rebuke...
Seite 464 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Seite 252 - For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.
Seite 259 - Christian knights; and now I dare say," said Sir Ector, "thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly knight's hand ; and thou were the courtliest knight that ever bare shield ; and thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrode horse ; and thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman ; and thou were the kindest man that ever...
Seite 462 - He will not have it defended by Man, or Man's power, but by His Word only, by the which He hath evermore defended it, and that by a way far above man's power or reason, as all the stories of the Bible make mention.