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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... vertue and of a cleare unspotted conscience , ( as wittnesseth Erasmus , ) more pure and white then the whitest snow , and of such an angelicall witt , as England , he sayth , never had the like before , nor 5 never shall againe ...
... vertue and of a cleare unspotted conscience , ( as wittnesseth Erasmus , ) more pure and white then the whitest snow , and of such an angelicall witt , as England , he sayth , never had the like before , nor 5 never shall againe ...
Page vii
... vertue and learning brought up from there youth , whom he 5 would often exhort to take vertue and learning for there meate , and play but for there sauce . Who ere ever he had beene reader in Court was in the latter tyme of Kinge Henry ...
... vertue and learning brought up from there youth , whom he 5 would often exhort to take vertue and learning for there meate , and play but for there sauce . Who ere ever he had beene reader in Court was in the latter tyme of Kinge Henry ...
Page xv
... vertues , was of such meekenes , that if it had 10 fortuned him with any learned man resortinge to him from Oxford , Cambridg , or elswhere , as there did diveres , some for the desire of his accquaintaunce , some for the famous reporte ...
... vertues , was of such meekenes , that if it had 10 fortuned him with any learned man resortinge to him from Oxford , Cambridg , or elswhere , as there did diveres , some for the desire of his accquaintaunce , some for the famous reporte ...
Page xvii
... vertue rewarded , and vice punnished , so that you are carried up to heaven even by the Chinnes . But if you live in the tyme , that no man will give you good Counsell , nor no man will give you good Example , when you shall see vertue ...
... vertue rewarded , and vice punnished , so that you are carried up to heaven even by the Chinnes . But if you live in the tyme , that no man will give you good Counsell , nor no man will give you good Example , when you shall see vertue ...
Page xviii
... vertue and godlinesse God shewed , as he seemed , a manifest miraculous token of his speciall favour towardes him , at such tyme as my wife ( as many 25 others that yeare were ) was sicke of the sweatinge sicknes , who lyinge in soe ...
... vertue and godlinesse God shewed , as he seemed , a manifest miraculous token of his speciall favour towardes him , at such tyme as my wife ( as many 25 others that yeare were ) was sicke of the sweatinge sicknes , who lyinge in soe ...
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