Der englische Volkscharakter: seine natürlichen u. historischen Grundlagen

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Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1925 - England - 224 pages

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Page 174 - Uxores habent deni duodenique inter se communes, et maxime fratres cum fratribus parentesque cum liberis ; sed, si qui sunt ex his nati, eorum habentur liberi, quo primum virgo quaeque deducta est.
Page 181 - We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead : We have strawed our best to the weed's unrest To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha...
Page 202 - ... by God's help came forth honour to the kingdom and advantage to the king in his actions of war.
Page 205 - Let there be any grief or disease incident unto the soul of man, any wound or sickness named, for which there is not in this treasure-house a present comfortable remedy at all times ready to be found. Hereof it is, that we covet to make the Psalms especially familiar unto all.
Page 205 - Providence over this world, and the promised joys of that world which is to come, all good necessarily to be either known or done or had, this one celestial fountain yieldeth. Let there be any grief or disease incident into the soul of man, any wound or sickness named, for which there is not in this treasure-house a present comfortable remedy at all times ready to be found.
Page 174 - ... patrem honor, quidam sanctiorem artioremque hunc nexum sanguinis arbitrantur et in accipiendis obsidibus magis exigunt, tamquam et animum firmius et domum latius teneant. heredes tamen successoresque sui cuique liberi, et nullum testamentum.
Page 158 - Sunt alii super glaciem ludere doctiores, singuli pedibus suis aptantes et sub talaribus suis alligantes ossa, tibias scilicet animalium et palos ferro acuto supposito tenentes in 20 manibus; quos cum aliquando glaciei illidunt, tanta rapacitate feruntur, quanta avis volans, vel pilum balistae.
Page 163 - Singulorum studiorum scholares suam habent pilam; singulorum officiorum urbis exercitores suam fere singuli. Majores natu, patres et divites urbis in equis spectatum veniunt certamina juniorum et modo suo juvenantur cum juvenibus; et excitari videtur in eis motus caloris naturalis contempla15 tione tanti motus et participatione gaudiorum adolescentiae liberioris.
Page 167 - Disputant scholares, quidam demonstrative, dialectice alii; hi rotant 5 enthymemata6, hi perfectis melius utuntur syllogismis. Quidam ad ostentationem exercentur disputatione, quae est inter colluctantes; alii ad veritatem, ea quae est perfectionis gratia. Sophistae simulatores agmine et inundatione verborum beati judicantur; alii paralogizant. Oratores aliqui quandoque orationibus rhetoricis aliquid dicunt apposite ad per- 10 suadendum, curantes artis praecepta servare et ex contingentibus nihil...
Page 191 - Pencrich; so that now, the year of our Lord a thousand three hundred four score and five, and of the second king Richard after the conquest nine, in all the grammar schools of England, children leaveth French and construeth and learneth in English...

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