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... Parliament house of England his natural 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 ...
... Parliament house of England his natural 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 ...
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... Parliament house of England his natural 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 ...
... Parliament house of England his natural 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 ...
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... Parliament Temporary retirement from public life . First Marriage Death of Henry VII . and accession of Henry VIII . More made Undersheriff Death of his first wife • Second Marriage • Second part of ' Utopia ' written First part • His ...
... Parliament Temporary retirement from public life . First Marriage Death of Henry VII . and accession of Henry VIII . More made Undersheriff Death of his first wife • Second Marriage • Second part of ' Utopia ' written First part • His ...
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... Parliament , wherein ther were by the King demaunded ( as I 10 have hard it reported ) about three fifteenes for the marriag of his eldest daughter , that then should be the Scottish Queene . ten At the last debatinge wherof he mad such ...
... Parliament , wherein ther were by the King demaunded ( as I 10 have hard it reported ) about three fifteenes for the marriag of his eldest daughter , that then should be the Scottish Queene . ten At the last debatinge wherof he mad such ...
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... Parliament houlden , whereof Sir Thomas 5 Moore was chosen Speaker , who beinge very loath to take that Roome upon him , made an oration , not now extant , to the King's Heighnes for his discharge therof . Whereunto when the Kinge would ...
... Parliament houlden , whereof Sir Thomas 5 Moore was chosen Speaker , who beinge very loath to take that Roome upon him , made an oration , not now extant , to the King's Heighnes for his discharge therof . Whereunto when the Kinge would ...
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Amaurote anye avaunce awaye beinge beleve beynge bicause Bishopps Cardinall cause chaunce citie comminge common wealth counsell countrey Cuthbert Tunstall daunger daye death dede divers doth English evel everye farre favour frendes furth geven goodnes Grace hable hath Henry VIII Highnes himselfe honour kepe King King's kynge labour land Latin lawes litle Lord Chauncellor lyfe maner manye matter maye moneye mooste More's mynde myne never nothinge onelye Parliament perceave Peter Giles Plato pleasaunt pleasure poynte praye prince punished quod quoth Raphael Realme receaved religion remembraunce Richard Southwell Riche Robynson's sayd saye selfe Shaks shal shewed Sir Tho Sir Thomas Moore sonne statute stoore themselfes thereof therfore theyr thinges thinke thynge tyme unto Utopia vertue verye warre wayes wayges weale publique wherin whome whyche wise witte woorke word wyfe wyll ΙΟ
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Page 144 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 186 - ... whom is the spirit of the holy gods ; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him ; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king...
Page xviii - to your first case: The Parliament may well, Master Rich, meddle with the state of temporal princes. But to make answer to your other case, I will put you this case: Suppose the Parliament would make a law that God should not be God. Would you then, Master Rich, say that God were not God?
Page xxxvi - Master Pope, and be not discomforted; for I trust that we shall, once in heaven, see each other full merrily, where we shall be sure to live and love together in joyful bliss eternally!
Page xxxiv - More have I not to say (my Lords) but like as the blessed Apostle St Paul, as we read in the Acts of the Apostles, was present, and consented to the death of St Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they now both twain holy saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends...
Page 132 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was...
Page 116 - I can perceive nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of the commonwealth. They invent and devise all means and crafts, first how to keep safely without fear of losing that they have unjustly gathered together, and next how to hire and abuse the work and labour of the poor for as little money as may be.
Page 3 - ... thruste oute, they be constrayned to sell it for a thing of nought. And when they have wandered abrode tyll that be spent, what can they then els doo but steale, and then justly pardy be hanged, or els go about a beggyng.
Page 39 - ... appoynted to learninge. Howbeit a greate multitude of every sort of people, both men and women go to heare lectures, some one and some an other, as everye mans nature is inclined.
Page xiii - And albeit in the beginning they were resolved, that with an oath not to be known whether he had to the supremacy been sworn, or what he thought thereof, he should be discharged, yet did Queen Anne, by her importunate clamour, so sore exasperate the King against him, that, contrary to his former resolution, he caused the oath of the supremacy to be ministered unto him, who, albeit he made a discreet qualified answer, nevertheless was forthwith committed to the Tower...