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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... mind , which great estates and peers of the realm rarely can do ; and beside this most princes now take delight rather in warlike matters and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace , while their present counsellors will admit ...
... mind , which great estates and peers of the realm rarely can do ; and beside this most princes now take delight rather in warlike matters and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace , while their present counsellors will admit ...
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... mind of its author on topics of the greatest importance at the time when he lived . More represents the conversation which is set forth in the Utopia as having taken place at Antwerp . The traveller , Raphael Hythloday , is introduced ...
... mind of its author on topics of the greatest importance at the time when he lived . More represents the conversation which is set forth in the Utopia as having taken place at Antwerp . The traveller , Raphael Hythloday , is introduced ...
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... mind back to the close of the reign of the seventh Henry , when Empson and Dudley were in the height of their power . In such wise does More declare through his fictitious narrator the difficulties which he felt would attend on life in ...
... mind back to the close of the reign of the seventh Henry , when Empson and Dudley were in the height of their power . In such wise does More declare through his fictitious narrator the difficulties which he felt would attend on life in ...
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... mind . Utopia is an island , and its great river is very like to the river Thames , and is in the same way spanned by a bridge of stone- work with gorgeous and substantial arches . Its government is representative like that of More's ...
... mind . Utopia is an island , and its great river is very like to the river Thames , and is in the same way spanned by a bridge of stone- work with gorgeous and substantial arches . Its government is representative like that of More's ...
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... mind and the garnishing of the same . Men are ' not to be wearied ( p . 79 ) from early in the morning till late in the evening , with continual work like labouring and toil- ing beasts : for this is worse than the miserable and ...
... mind and the garnishing of the same . Men are ' not to be wearied ( p . 79 ) from early in the morning till late in the evening , with continual work like labouring and toil- ing beasts : for this is worse than the miserable and ...
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