 | 1829 - 590 ページ
...in beautiful and glowing language by Sir Thomas More, in his Utopia, — ' Your sheep,' says he, ' that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They... | |
 | 1829 - 586 ページ
...Utopia, — 4 Your sheep,' says he, ' that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, -now become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities... | |
 | Patrick Edward Dove - 1856 - 532 ページ
...beautiful and glowing language by Sir Thomas More, in his Utopia. " * Your sheep,' says he, < which were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 560 ページ
...time on all economical questions. " Forsooth, my lord, quoth I," — he is addressing Morton, — " your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame,...great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities... | |
 | Thomas Edward Scrutton - 1887 - 202 ページ
...had published his Utopia, and the first book set out complaints as to the realm of England 1 :— " Your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters now have become so great devourers and so wild that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.... | |
 | Thomas Mackay - 1889 - 328 ページ
...landlords for rent-raising.1 Another cause of stealing he goes on to say is : — That your sheep, which were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters,...great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses and cities.... | |
 | Thomas Mackay - 1889 - 328 ページ
...landlords for rent-raising.1 Another cause of stealing he goes on to say is : — That your sheep, which were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters,...great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses and cities.... | |
 | Thomas Mackay - 1889 - 320 ページ
...landlords for rent-raising.' Another cause of stealing he goes on to say is : — That your sheep, which were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters,...great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses and cities.... | |
 | Charles Creighton - 1891 - 730 ページ
...peculiar to you Englishmen alone.—What is that? quoth the Cardinal.—Forsooth, my lord, quoth I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame,...so great devourers and so wild that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy and devour whole fields, houses and cities.... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1891 - 344 ページ
...complaint of More's was against the ever-growing increase of inclosures for pasturage. " Sheep,'1 he said, "be become so great devourers and so wild that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities."... | |
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I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and . „ swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses,... 
