 | George Walter Prothero - 1898 - 646 ページ
...Ordinarily the king doth only make knights and create barons or higher degrees, for as for gentlemen tliey be made good cheap in England. For whosoever studieth...countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, . . . and shall be taken for a gentleman . . . Of Yeomen. Those whom we call yeomen, next unto the... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 642 ページ
...gentlemen . . . Of Gentlemen. Gentlemen be those whom their blood and race doth make noble and known . . . Ordinarily the king doth only make knights and create...countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, . . . and be taken for a gentleman . . . Of Yeomen. Those whom we call yeomen, next unto the nobility,... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 650 ページ
...gentlemen . . . Of Gentlemen. Gentlemen be those whom their blood and race doth make noble and known . . . Ordinarily the king doth only make knights and create...countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, . . . and be taken for a gentleman . . . Of Yeomen. Those whom we call yeomen, next unto the nobility,... | |
 | Robert Roswell Palmer - 1959 - 552 ページ
...universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, to be short, can live idly, and without manual labor, and will bear the port, charge and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and taken for a gentleman."22 Much the same could be said for France, where, however, the way to nobility... | |
 | Edna Zwick Boris - 1978 - 274 ページ
...position, since they "be made good cheap in England." He who "can live idly and without manual labor, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master. . . ." 3 The title, however, would not go without the charge and countenance. The nobly born, ambitious... | |
 | Joan Simon - 1966 - 472 ページ
...of his time. 1 This, surely, is the sense of Smith's summary (echoed by Harrison or vice versa) — 'whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth...short, who can live idly and without manual labour . . .he shall be called master,. . .the title which men give to. . .gentlemen, and shall be taken for... | |
 | Perez Zagorin - 1982 - 294 ページ
...acutest Elizabethan observers pointed out, "gentlemen ... be made good cheape . . . For whosoever . . . can live idly and without manual labour, and will...bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman . . . shall be taken for a gentleman"; although the same writer continued nonetheless to define a gentleman... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - 1983 - 646 ページ
...was that of Sir Thomas Smith in the sixteenth century: "Who can live idly and without manual labor, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he ... shall be taken for a gentleman. " In other words, if you have enough money, and set up for a gentleman, then... | |
 | Lucy Gent, Nigel Llewellyn - 1990 - 308 ページ
...professeth liberal sciences, and to be shorte, who can live idly and without manuall labour, and will beare the port, charge and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master . . . and shall be taken for a gentleman.1 Smith, an academic lawyer and civil servant, probably over-estimated... | |
 | Richard Halpern - 1991 - 340 ページ
...world, William Harrison complained that anyone who can live without manuel labour, and thereto is able and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall for monie have a cote and armes bestowed upon him by heralds (who in the charter of the same doo of... | |
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Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear... 
