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... called the framework or setting for the second , was completed in 1516 , just about the time when More , though strongly urged to do so by Cardinal Wolsey , had declined to give up his position as undersheriff , and his income from ...
... called the framework or setting for the second , was completed in 1516 , just about the time when More , though strongly urged to do so by Cardinal Wolsey , had declined to give up his position as undersheriff , and his income from ...
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... called . Even those most devoted to a religious life among them employ themselves in busy labour and good exercises . Their priests are very few in num- ber , and may be women as well as men . Their persons are sacred from ordinary ...
... called . Even those most devoted to a religious life among them employ themselves in busy labour and good exercises . Their priests are very few in num- ber , and may be women as well as men . Their persons are sacred from ordinary ...
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... called 15 New Inne , where for his tyme , he very well prospered . And from thence was committed to Lincolne's Inne with very smale allowaunce , continuing there his studie untill he was made and accounted a worthie utter barrister ...
... called 15 New Inne , where for his tyme , he very well prospered . And from thence was committed to Lincolne's Inne with very smale allowaunce , continuing there his studie untill he was made and accounted a worthie utter barrister ...
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... called him aside , and pretendinge great favour towardes him , promised him that if he would be ruled by him , he would not faile but into the Kinge's favour againe to restore him , meaninge , as it was after conjectured , to cause him ...
... called him aside , and pretendinge great favour towardes him , promised him that if he would be ruled by him , he would not faile but into the Kinge's favour againe to restore him , meaninge , as it was after conjectured , to cause him ...
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... called the new buyldinge , wherin was a Chappell , a Library and a Gallerie , in which as his use was upon other dayes to occupie himself in prayer and studie to gither , soe on the Fridayes there usually continued he from 20 morninge ...
... called the new buyldinge , wherin was a Chappell , a Library and a Gallerie , in which as his use was upon other dayes to occupie himself in prayer and studie to gither , soe on the Fridayes there usually continued he from 20 morninge ...
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Amaurote anye awaye beinge beleve beynge bicause Bishopp Book Cardinall cause certein chaunce citie commeth comminge common wealth counsell countrey Cuthbert Tunstall daunger daye death dede divers doth evel everye farre favour frendes furth geve geven Grace hable hath Henry VII Highnes honour kepe King King's knowen kynge labour land Latin lawes learninge litle Lord Chauncellor lyfe maner manye matter maye moneye mooste More's mynde myne never nothinge onelye onlye Parliament perceave Peter Giles Plato pleasaunt pleasure praye prince punished quod quoth Raphael Realme receave religion Robynson sayd saye selfe sense Shaks shal shewed Sir Tho Sir Thomas Moore sonne St John's College stoore themselfes thereof therfore theves theyr thinges thinke thou thynge tyme unto Utopia vertue verye warre waye wayges weale publique wherin whome whyche wise witte woorke wyfe wyll
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Page 190 - 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 232 - ... 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 lii - 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 162 - 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 34 - ... they sell them agayne excedynge deare. And therefore (as I suppose) the whole incommoditie hereof is not yet felte. For yet they make dearth onely in those places where they sell. But when they shall fetche them...
Page xlv - I should much joy either of my gay house or of anything belonging thereunto; when if I should but seven years lie buried under the ground, and then arise and come thither again, I should not fail to find some therein, that would bid me get me out of doors; and tell me it were none of mine. What cause have I then to like such an house, as would so soon forget his master?
Page 178 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was...
Page 261 - THE PITT PRESS SERIES. *»* Many of the books in this list can be had in two volumes, Text and Notes separately. I. GREEK. Aristophanes. Aves— Plutus— Kanse.