 | Biography - 1798 - 514 pages
...broke out into this expreffion after fhe was retired, " A good hearing it is, when women become fuch clerks! and a thing much to my comfort, to come in mine old age, to be taught by my wife!" Winchefter failed not to improve the opportunity to aggravate the queen's infolence, to infinuate the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 546 pages
...reformation, the king broke out into this expression after she was retired, " A good hearing it is, when women become such clerks ! and a thing much to...comfort, to come in mine old age to be taught by my wife !" Winchester failed not to improve this opportunity to aggravate the queen's insolence, to insinuate... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 544 pages
...retired, 1 Hist. of England.— Herbert's Life of Henry VIII.— Birch's Lives. " A good hearing it is, when women become such clerks ! and a thing much to...comfort, to come in mine old age to be taught by my wife !" Winchester failed not to improve this opportunity to aggravate the queen's insolence, to insinuate... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 606 pages
...the new opinions, Henry in the presence of Gardiner exclaimed with warmth; " A good hearing it is, when women become such clerks, and a thing much to my comfort, to come in mine old age * As this courageous woman, whose name was Ayscough, refused to criminate the Duchess of Suffolk, and... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 632 pages
...The king was not well pleased with her religious conversation, and observed, " A good hearing it is, when women become such clerks ! and a thing much to...comfort, to come in mine old age to be taught by my wife !" The bishop of Winchester falsely accused the queen of treason and heresy ; and the king was prevailed... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 624 pages
...The king was not well pleased with her religious conversation, and observed, " A good hearing it is, when women become such clerks ! and a thing much to...comfort, to come in mine old age to be taught by my wife !" The bishop of Winchester falsely accused the queen of treason and heresy ; and the king was prevailed... | |
 | Henry Walter - Great Britain - 1832 - 642 pages
...bore to that law of holiness which she would fain have had him love. " A good hearing it is," said he, " when women become such clerks! And a thing much to my comfort, to come in my old age, to be taught by my wife !" These words were addressed to bishop Gardiner, who happened... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 294 pages
...upon her departure, used these words — " It is a good bearing when women become such clarks, and much to my comfort to come in mine old age to be taughte by my wife." Then the Bishop shewed a mislike that the Queene would so much forget herselfe... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Great Britain - 1837 - 486 pages
...had begun. When she retired, he could not conceal his dissatisfaction. " A good hearing it is," said he, " when women become such clerks, and a thing much...to come in mine old age to be taught by my wife." This opportunity the craft of Gardiner failed not to improve. He extolled Henry's great learning and... | |
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A good hearing it is when women become such clerks ; and a thing much to my comfort, to come in mine old days to be taught by my wife... 
