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... heard . The fabulous Prester John , whose country is described in the section here given from Mandeville's Travels , was first heard of at Rome in 1145 as a Nestorian priest who claimed to be descended from the Magi . He had taken ...
... heard . The fabulous Prester John , whose country is described in the section here given from Mandeville's Travels , was first heard of at Rome in 1145 as a Nestorian priest who claimed to be descended from the Magi . He had taken ...
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... heard mass , and every man was shriven and housled ; and then we entered , fourteen persons , but at our going out we were but nine . And so we never knew whether our fellows were lost , or had turned back for fear ; but we never saw ...
... heard mass , and every man was shriven and housled ; and then we entered , fourteen persons , but at our going out we were but nine . And so we never knew whether our fellows were lost , or had turned back for fear ; but we never saw ...
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... heard say , why this emperor is called Prester John . There was some time an emperor there , who was a worthy and a full noble prince , that had Christian knights in his company , as he has that now is . So it befell that he had great ...
... heard say , why this emperor is called Prester John . There was some time an emperor there , who was a worthy and a full noble prince , that had Christian knights in his company , as he has that now is . So it befell that he had great ...
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... heard of him ill in London wrote , " I would ye were at home , if it were for your ease ( and your sore might be as well looked to here as it is there ye be ) , now , liever than a gown , though it were of scarlet . " 66 The following ...
... heard of him ill in London wrote , " I would ye were at home , if it were for your ease ( and your sore might be as well looked to here as it is there ye be ) , now , liever than a gown , though it were of scarlet . " 66 The following ...
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... heard so much of his birth and his conditions that , an ye will , she will have him whether that her mother will or will not , notwithstanding it is told her his person is simple , for she saith men shall have the more deyntee of her if ...
... heard so much of his birth and his conditions that , an ye will , she will have him whether that her mother will or will not , notwithstanding it is told her his person is simple , for she saith men shall have the more deyntee of her if ...
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Page 283 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 115 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 146 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 113 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another:, he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Page 114 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring: for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business...
Page 146 - Behold now this vast city ; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection. The shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguerd truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...
Page 76 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Page 114 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 236 - As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes, that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from anything I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and' qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Page 76 - Now therein of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit), is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it...