 | 1825 - 392 halaman
...buttered toasts. The Kentish men of old were said to have tails, because trafficking in the Low Countries, they never paid full payments of what they did owe, but still left some part unpaid. Essex men are called calves, (because they abound there), Lancashire, egg-pies, and to be won by an... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1825 - 388 halaman
...buttered toasts. The Kentish men of old were said to have tails, because trafficking in the Low Countries, they never paid full payments of what they did owe, but still left some part unpaid. Essex men are called calves, (because they abound there), Lancashire, egg-pies, and to be won by an... | |
 | 1829 - 488 halaman
...The Kentish men of old were said to haue tayles, because trafficking in the Low Countries, they neuer paid full payments of what they did owe, but still left some part vnpaid. Essex men are called calues, (because they abound there,) Lankashire eggepies, and to be wonne... | |
 | William Brenchley Rye, Friedrich I (duke of Würtemberg) - 1865 - 462 halaman
...tostes. The Kentish men of old were said to have tayles, because trafficking in the Low Countries, they never paid full payments of what they did owe, but still left some part unpaid." Van Meteren, the Dutch historian, has given (ante, p. 73), his reasons " why England is called the... | |
 | 1892 - 152 halaman
...The Kentish men of old," he says, "were said to have tails because, trafficking in the Low Countries, they never paid full payments of what they did owe, but still left some part unpaid." — ' Itinerary," 3, 53, 149 (1617). The same story of the tailed men of Kent is told in connection... | |
 | Karl Heinrich Schaible - 1885 - 510 halaman
...1617: „The Kentish men of old were said to have tayles, becanse trafficking in the Low Countries. they never paid full payments of what they did owe, but still left some part unpaid". Das niedere Volk in London machte es übrigens den Fremden zuweilen gar zu arg, so dass die bitteren... | |
 | Karl Heinrich Schaible - 1885 - 518 halaman
...men of old were said to have tayles, because trafficking in the Low Countries. they never paid füll payments of what they did owe, but still left some part unpaid". Das niedere Volk in London machte es übrigens den Fremden zuweilen gar zu arg, so dass die bitteren... | |
 | George Buchanan - 1892 - 134 halaman
...Kentish men of old," he says, " were said to have tails because, trafficking in the Low Countries, they never paid full payments of what they did owe, but still left some part unpaid."—' Itinerary,' 3, 53, 149 (1617). The same story of the tailed men of Kent is told in connection with... | |
 | George Neilson - 1896 - 52 halaman
...suggestion the whimsical irrelevancy of which makes it difficult to follow and impossible to accept. 3 "The Kentish men of old were said to have tayles because,"...English got their nickname from the tails of their shoes, 4 1 Fuller's Worthies (Kent) edition, 1662, p. 63; cited in Mr. Dyce's notes to Skelton's Works,... | |
 | Fynes Moryson - 1908 - 536 halaman
...and all within the sound of Bow-Bell, are in reproch called Cocknies, and eaters of buttered tostes. The Kentish men of old were said to have tayles, because...what they did owe, but still left some part unpaid. Essex men are called calves, (because they abound there), Lanka shire egge-pies, and to be wonns by... | |
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The Kentish men of old were said to have tails, because trafficking in the Low Countries, they never paid full payments of what they did owe, but still left some part unpaid. 
