Domestic Life in England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With Notices of Origins, Inventions, and Modern Improvements in the Social ArtsThomas Tegg and Son, 1835 - 379 halaman |
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... learned Lord Kaimes observes : " People who live in a corner , imagine that every thing is peculiar to themselves . What is here said of the English is common to all nations in advancing from the selfishness of savages to a relish for ...
... learned Lord Kaimes observes : " People who live in a corner , imagine that every thing is peculiar to themselves . What is here said of the English is common to all nations in advancing from the selfishness of savages to a relish for ...
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... learned in their art , and have left to the world their cookery book , entitled the Form of Cury , or a Roll of Eng- lish Cookery , compiled about the year 1390 , by the master - cooks of Richard II . " The mention of breakfasts occurs ...
... learned in their art , and have left to the world their cookery book , entitled the Form of Cury , or a Roll of Eng- lish Cookery , compiled about the year 1390 , by the master - cooks of Richard II . " The mention of breakfasts occurs ...
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... learned hymns by heart , sang and danced to music . Such were the pursuits of the mass of the people : indeed , they held it disho- nourable to learn to read and write . Learning was in these times confined to the Druids , who possessed ...
... learned hymns by heart , sang and danced to music . Such were the pursuits of the mass of the people : indeed , they held it disho- nourable to learn to read and write . Learning was in these times confined to the Druids , who possessed ...
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... learned works were written in Latin , which was used in all documents and transactions relating to church affairs , but could only be acquired with great difficulty by the people . Copious dictionaries were then unknown ; perhaps there ...
... learned works were written in Latin , which was used in all documents and transactions relating to church affairs , but could only be acquired with great difficulty by the people . Copious dictionaries were then unknown ; perhaps there ...
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... large estate for a book on a learned subject ; a bargain which may have given rise to the maxim : ' Learning is better than house and land . " 66 hunting and gymnastics , as conducive to warlike habits . 56 HISTORICAL NOTICES OF.
... large estate for a book on a learned subject ; a bargain which may have given rise to the maxim : ' Learning is better than house and land . " 66 hunting and gymnastics , as conducive to warlike habits . 56 HISTORICAL NOTICES OF.
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Halaman 374 - From seventeen years till now almost fourscore Here lived I, but now live here no more. At seventeen years many their fortunes seek; But at fourscore, it is too late a week: Yet fortune cannot recompence me better, Than to die well, and not my master's debtor.
Halaman 82 - I will tell you, quoth she, and tell you a Truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest Benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe Parents, and so gentle a Schoolmaster. For when I am in Presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep Silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing...
Halaman 374 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Halaman 82 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
Halaman 352 - As if the natural calamities of life were not sufficient for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from - trifling accidents as from real evils. I have known...
Halaman 209 - But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep. [Aside. CADE. Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Halaman 338 - A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing, or depositing, the rain are opposite to the sun, — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west ; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly wind, a rainbow in the west indicates, that the bad weather is on the road, by the wind, to us ; whereas the rainbow in the east proves, that the rain in these clouds is passing from us.
Halaman 89 - EPITAPH. ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother : Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Halaman 374 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Halaman 332 - There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the churchyards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.