 | Frederick James Furnivall - 1867 - 96 ページ
...should I hang than study letters. For it becomes the sons of gentlemen to I blow the horn nicely (apte), to hunt skilfully, and elegantly carry | and train...of letters should be left to the sons of rustics." At this point I could not restrain myself from answering something to this most talkative man, in defence... | |
 | Frederick James Furnivall - 1868 - 746 ページ
...should hang than study letters. For it becomes the sons of gentlemen to blow the horn nicely (apte), to hunt skilfully, and elegantly carry and train a...of letters should be left to the sons of rustics." At this point I could not restrain myself from answering something to this most talkative man, in defence... | |
 | Sir Humphrey Gilbert - 1869 - 322 ページ
...constrained by the present occasion, then prompted by any vaine desire to currie fauoure with my friende. Por his vertues are sufficient to praise themselves. And...(Babees Book, p. xiii) ; the words too of Skelton (Colyn Clout, Dyce's ed. i. 334), 1 Also in Hakluyt's Voyages, iii. 11, ed. 1600. * " Sir Humphrey... | |
 | 1878 - 616 ページ
...rather ' see them hang than study letters.' Letters were for the rustic: a gentleman should know how to ' blow the horn nicely, to hunt skilfully, and elegantly carry and train a hawk.' Besides these accomplishments, the ' yonker of account' was taught the barest rudiments of grammar... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1885 - 766 ページ
...gentleman's education in Britain as well as on the Continent, even later than the sixteenth century. fully, and elegantly carry and train a hawk. But the study...of letters should be left to the sons of rustics." These are the words of an English gentleman, of the time of Henry VIII, who, on hearing letters praised,... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1885 - 840 ページ
...than learn letters. For it becomes the sons ot gentlemen to blow a horn nicely, to hunt skillfully, a.nd elegantly carry and train a hawk. But the study...of letters should be left to the sons of rustics." These are the words of an English gentleman, of the time of Henry VIII, who, on hearing letters praised,... | |
 | 1889 - 400 ページ
...arc beggars. * * * I swear by God's body, I'd rather that my son should hang than study letters. For it becomes the sons of gentlemen to blow the horn nicely, to hunt skillfully, and elegantly carry and train a hawk. But the study of letters should be left to the sons... | |
 | Samuel Gardner Williams - 1892 - 438 ページ
...all, is a beggar as I hear. — I swear I'd rather that my son should hang than study letters. For it becomes the sons of gentlemen to blow the horn nicely, to hunt skilfully, and elegantly to carry and train a hawk. But the study of letters should be left to the sons of rustics." A great... | |
 | Edward Mussey Hartwell - 1899 - 118 ページ
...than learn letters. For it becomes the sous of gentlemen to blow a horn nicely, to hunt skilllnlly, and elegantly carry and train a hawk. But the study of letters should bo left to the sons of rustics." These are the words of au English gentleman of the time of Heury VIII,... | |
 | 1910 - 610 ページ
...rather that my son should hang than study letters. For it becomes thé sons of gentlemen to blow thé horn nicely, to hunt skilfully, and elegantly carry and train a hawk. But thé study of letters should be left to thé sons of rustics'." Not ail thé sons of gentlemen were... | |
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I swear by God's body, I'd rather that my son should hang than study letters. For it becomes the sons of gentlemen to blow the horn nicely, to hunt skilfully, and elegantly carry and train a hawk. But the study of letters should be left to the sons of... 
