Historical and Biographical Works, Band 11

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Clarendon Press, 1822

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Seite 132 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, 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.
Seite 310 - In the name of God amen. The 1 st day of September in the 36th year of the reign of our sovereign lord Henry VIII by the grace of God King of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith and of the church of England and also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head, and in the year of our Lord God 1544.
Seite 148 - nay, Butterflies.' Lord, what ado there was for that word! And yet would God they were no worse than butterflies! Butterflies do but their nature: the butterfly is not covetous, is not greedy, of other men's goods; is not full of envy and hatred, is not malicious, is not cruel, is not merciless. The butterfly...
Seite 132 - ... men. He had 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 unto Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the king's majesty now.
Seite 144 - England, I speak it to thy shame; is there never a nobleman to be a lord president*, but it must be a prelate ? Is there never a wise man in the realm to be a comptroller of the mint ? I speak it to your shame.
Seite 144 - If the apostles might not leave the office of preaching to the deacons, shall one leave it for minting? I cannot tell you ; but the saying is, that since priests have been minters, money hath been worse than it was before. And they say that the evilness of money hath made all things dearer. And in this behalf I must speak to England.
Seite 150 - I speak to you, my masters, minters, augmentationers, receivers, surveyors, and auditors ; I make a petition unto you : I beseech you all be good to the king ; he hath been good to you, therefore be good to him ; yea, be good to your own souls. Ye are known well enough what ye were...
Seite 430 - Remember what you promised me in the gallery at Westminster, before the breath was out of the body of the King that dead is. Remember what you promised immediately after, devising with me concerning the place which you now occupy, I trust in the end to good purpose, however things thwart now.
Seite 153 - Yea, and as I hear say, aldermen now-a-days are become colliers. They be both woodmongers and makers of coals ; I would wish he might eat nothing but coals for a while, till he had amended it. There cannot a poor body buy a sack of coals, but it must come through their hands.
Seite 515 - ... quisque ingenio, negotiis omnibus omissis, totum se in cognitione et scientia collocaret. Non est ita : nam et solitudinem fugeret, et socium studii quaereret : tum docere, tum discere vellet, tum audire, tum dicere.

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