 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1830 - 414 ページ
...hunger. This lasted the nineteen years while Stephen was king, and it grew continually worse and worse. They burned all the towns : — thou mightest go a...hunger : to till the ground was to plough the sea." * This description of a contemporary t comprises by far the most important part of that confused alternation... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 484 ページ
...hunger. This lasted the nineteen years while Stephen -was king, and it grew continually worse and worse. They burned all the towns : — thou mightest go a...men starved of hunger : to till the ground was to plow the sea."* This description of a contemporary f comprises by far the most important part of that... | |
 | James Sykes (of London.) - 1839 - 88 ページ
...was dissension and evil and rapine, and many thousands perished with hunger. Thou mightest go a whole day's journey and not find a. man sitting in a town, nor an acre of land tilled. The poor died of hunger, and those who had been well to do begged for bread. ... To till the ground... | |
 | James Orange - 1840 - 542 ページ
...tribute upon towns and cities, and this they called teuserie chastisement. Thou mightest go a whole days journey and not find a man sitting in a town, nor an acre of land tilled. The poor died of hunger, and those that had been men well to do, begged their bread ; never was more... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - 536 ページ
...says the Saxon Chronicle, • all was dissension, and evil, and rapine. . . . Thou mightest go a whole day's journey, and not find a man sitting in a town, nor an acre of land tilled. The poor died of hunger; and those who had been men well to do begged for bread. Never was more mischief... | |
 | 1842 - 546 ページ
...says the Saxon Chronicle, ' all was dissuasion, and evil, and rapine. . . . Thou mightest go a whole day's journey, and not find a man sitting in a town, nor an acre of land tilled. The poor died of hunger; and those who had been men well to do begged for bread. Never was more mischief... | |
 | 1842 - 538 ページ
...says the Saxon Chronicle, ' all was dissension, and evil, and rapine. . . . Thou mightest go a whole day's journey, and not find a man sitting in a town, nor an acre of land tilled. The poor died of hunger; and those who had been men well to do begged for bread. Never was more mischief... | |
 | Henry White - 1844 - 594 ページ
...evils incident to the feudal system. " The nobles burnt all the towns : — thou mightest go a whole day's journey and not find a man sitting in a town,...starved of hunger: to till the ground was to plough the sands of the sea." HENRY II., Plantagenet,* mounted the throne in 1154. By inheritance and marriage... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 ページ
...who immediately preceded Henry II., says, "The nobles burnt all the towns: thou mightest go a whole day's journey and not find a man sitting in a town,...starved of hunger ; to till the ground was to plough the sands of the sea." Meanwhile the laud had been parcelled out among the Norman chiefs and their vassals.... | |
 | Michael Staunton - 1844 - 62 ページ
...who immediately preceded Henry II., says, ' The nobles burnt all the towns : thou mightest go a whole day's journey and not find a man sitting in a town,...starved of hunger ; to till the ground was to plough the sands of the sea.' " — People's History of Ireland, p. 8. Mr. Martin did not, we presume, imagine... | |
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Thou mightest go a whole day's journey, and not find a man sitting in a town, nor an acre of land tilled. 
