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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... writing the same word in two or three differ- ent ways . To many readers , this might have been a source of obscurity . It was hence , perhaps , of less consequence to retain it ; but it once occurred to me to print a few sentences , or ...
... writing the same word in two or three differ- ent ways . To many readers , this might have been a source of obscurity . It was hence , perhaps , of less consequence to retain it ; but it once occurred to me to print a few sentences , or ...
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... writer in the English language , which occurs in our literary annals , is the an- cient and renowned traveller , sir John Mande- ville . He was born at St. Albans about the beginning of 1300. He received a liberal edu- cation , and ...
... writer in the English language , which occurs in our literary annals , is the an- cient and renowned traveller , sir John Mande- ville . He was born at St. Albans about the beginning of 1300. He received a liberal edu- cation , and ...
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... write in their registers such things as daily happen and fall ; therefore , I William Caxton , a simple person , have endeavoured me to write first over all the said book of Polychronicon , and somewhat have changed the rude and old ...
... write in their registers such things as daily happen and fall ; therefore , I William Caxton , a simple person , have endeavoured me to write first over all the said book of Polychronicon , and somewhat have changed the rude and old ...
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... write eggs or eyren , certainly it is hard to please every man , because of diversity and change of language : for in these days , every man that is in any reputation in his country , will utter his communication and matters , in such ...
... write eggs or eyren , certainly it is hard to please every man , because of diversity and change of language : for in these days , every man that is in any reputation in his country , will utter his communication and matters , in such ...
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... write against the papal de- mand , in opposition to an English monk , who had published in its defence . This recom- mended him to the particular notice of the king , Edward III . who conferred upon him se- veral benefices , and ...
... write against the papal de- mand , in opposition to an English monk , who had published in its defence . This recom- mended him to the particular notice of the king , Edward III . who conferred upon him se- veral benefices , and ...
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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.