 | Saint Thomas More - Utopias - 1808 - 334 pages
...insomuch that one, of no small reputation among them, said after this manner : " The Englishmen, quoth be, have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly as weH as the king!" p. 187; quoted in Mr. Ellti's, Spec. Eng. Poet. vol. i. 322, 3. VOL. U. CHAPTER... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 446 pages
...that one of no " small reputation amongst them, said after this " manner: 'These English, quoth he, have their " houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare " commonly so well as the king." (Harrison's Description of England, prefixed to Holinshed, p. 187.) We have already seen that glazed... | |
 | 1802 - 886 pages
...one of no small ' reputation amongst them, said • after this manner : " These Eng' lish/' quoth he, "have their houses ' made of sticks and dirt, but they ' fare commonly so well as the ' king." ' Harrison's Description of England, prefixed to Holinshed, p. 187. " We have already seen that glazed... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 552 pages
...that one of no smalf re" putation amongst them said after this manner ; these " English, quoth he, have their houses made of sticks " and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king. " Whereby it appeareth that he liked better of our good " fare in such coarse cabins, than of their... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...insomuch that one of no small reputation amongst them, said, after this manner: these English, quoth he, have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king. Whereby it appeareth, that he liked befter of our good fare in such coarse cabins, than of their own... | |
 | George Ellis - English literature - 1811 - 464 pages
...that one of no " small reputation amongst them said after this " manner: ' These English,' quoth he,' have their " houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare " commonly so well as the king.'" (Harrison's Description of England, prefixed to Holinshed, p. 187.) We have already seen that glazed... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 550 pages
...that one of no " small reputation amongst them said after this manner ; " these English, quoth he, have their houses made of " sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the " King. Whereby it appeareth that he liked better of " our good fare in such course cabins, than of their own... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1819 - 502 pages
...the wind. Certes this rude kind of building made the Spaniards in Q. Mary's day to wonder, and say, " these English have their houses made of sticks and...dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king.'' Harrison's Description of England, prefixed to Hollingsh. p. 18/. Ellis's Specimen of Engl. Poets,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 500 pages
...one of no small reputation amongst them said, after this manner ; These English, quoth he, havg the houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king. Whereby it appeareth that he liked better of our good fare in such coarse cabins, than of their own... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Agriculture - 1826 - 502 pages
...English lived far more upon an animal diet, than their rivals the French; and Harrison informs us, that the Spaniards who came to England in Queen Mary's...dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the King." In our next paper we shall endeavour to prove our other positions respecting their condition ; —... | |
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Mary's days to wonder; but chiefly when they saw that large diet was used in many of these so homely cottages, insomuch that one of no small reputation amongst them said after this manner: These English, quoth he, have their houses made of sticks and... 
