More's Utopia, tr. by R. Robynson, pr. from the 2nd ed., 1556. To which is prefixed The life of sir Thos. More by W. Roper, repr. from Hearne's ed., 1716. Ed., with intr., notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... country for the redress ' of certain wicked laws , evil customs , and cruel decrees . ' This book , like the Utopia , dwells on the enhancing of rents , the enclosing of parks , forests and chases , the selling of wards for marriage ...
... country for the redress ' of certain wicked laws , evil customs , and cruel decrees . ' This book , like the Utopia , dwells on the enhancing of rents , the enclosing of parks , forests and chases , the selling of wards for marriage ...
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... countries and kingdoms may take example to amend their faults , enormi- ties and errors . ' Such reform is the drift of ... country of Utopia and one of its chief cities , and through the whole we may observe that England is in his mind ...
... countries and kingdoms may take example to amend their faults , enormi- ties and errors . ' Such reform is the drift of ... country of Utopia and one of its chief cities , and through the whole we may observe that England is in his mind ...
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... country , this labour is abridged , and to make the hours of toil as brief as conveniently may be is an object kept continually in view . Thus there is abundant time for all to be well edu- cated and to take interest in the study of ...
... country , this labour is abridged , and to make the hours of toil as brief as conveniently may be is an object kept continually in view . Thus there is abundant time for all to be well edu- cated and to take interest in the study of ...
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... countries are so often concluded , and then broken and renewed , that in Utopia no confidence is placed in them . On this ... country . They would rather conquer at any time by craft than by blows , and they prefer to spend the lives of ...
... countries are so often concluded , and then broken and renewed , that in Utopia no confidence is placed in them . On this ... country . They would rather conquer at any time by craft than by blows , and they prefer to spend the lives of ...
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... country in all partes of the shiere houses or fermes builded , wel appointed and furnyshed with all sortes of instrumentes and tooles belongynge to hus- bandrye . These houses be inhabited of the citezens , whyche come thether to dwelle ...
... country in all partes of the shiere houses or fermes builded , wel appointed and furnyshed with all sortes of instrumentes and tooles belongynge to hus- bandrye . These houses be inhabited of the citezens , whyche come thether to dwelle ...
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