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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... monks ; a supposition that will appear highly probable from the following extracts . Still , when he relates stories of an improbable na- ture , he commonly prefaces them with- They say , " or " men say - but I have not seen it ...
... monks ; a supposition that will appear highly probable from the following extracts . Still , when he relates stories of an improbable na- ture , he commonly prefaces them with- They say , " or " men say - but I have not seen it ...
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... monks , were mixed up with various legendary addi- tions of their own , into treatises , under the title of Mirabilia Mundi ; which contributing to awaken still more the desire to visit those wonderful countries , several professed tra ...
... monks , were mixed up with various legendary addi- tions of their own , into treatises , under the title of Mirabilia Mundi ; which contributing to awaken still more the desire to visit those wonderful countries , several professed tra ...
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... monk , was sent , by the command of St. Louis king of France , into Persic Tatary ; as was also Carpini , by Pope Innocent IV . Their books abound with improbabilities . About 1260 , Marco Polo , a Venetian noble- man , travelled into ...
... monk , was sent , by the command of St. Louis king of France , into Persic Tatary ; as was also Carpini , by Pope Innocent IV . Their books abound with improbabilities . About 1260 , Marco Polo , a Venetian noble- man , travelled into ...
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... monk at Cyprus . His travels , partly from the rank of the author , and partly from the won- derful adventures they contain , were in their day in high estimation . Leland says that Mandeville , on his return from his travels , gave to ...
... monk at Cyprus . His travels , partly from the rank of the author , and partly from the won- derful adventures they contain , were in their day in high estimation . Leland says that Mandeville , on his return from his travels , gave to ...
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... monk of St , Werberg , a suspicion has arisen that Higden pillaged the greater part of his Chronicle from the Polycratica ; and that he had a design to appropriate the labours of his brother monk . This supposition is ren- dered the ...
... monk of St , Werberg , a suspicion has arisen that Higden pillaged the greater part of his Chronicle from the Polycratica ; and that he had a design to appropriate the labours of his brother monk . This supposition is ren- dered the ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.