 | English authors - 1869 - 458 ページ
...deep thought or tender feeling. He was burnt with Ridley, at Oxford, in 1555, 1, A Yeoman's Estate. MY father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the nttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | 1869 - 974 ページ
...interfere, with it. Here, however, we are not without very tolerable inrormation. 'My father," says Latimer, 'was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a/arm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much a* kept... | |
 | 1870 - 340 ページ
...need not wonder at Hugh Latimer's often-quoted but graphic description of his father's house : — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of £3 or £4 by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men. He had... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 ページ
...portrait of a yeoman, by Latimer, in the first sermon preached before Edward vi., 8th March 1549 : ' My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own; only he had a farm of £3 or £4 by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 ページ
...a portrait of a yeoman, by Latimer, in the first sermon preached before Edward vi., 8th March 1549: 'My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own; only he had a farm of £3 or £4 by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1872 - 830 ページ
...of his sermons preached before Edward VI., that I must in justice give it in his own words. He says, "My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own. He had only a farm of three ; or four ponnds a year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much... | |
 | E S. P - 1872 - 594 ページ
...picture of the comfort, happiness, and indu^ry of | his father's family. " My father," ; says he, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pound by year, at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept halfa-dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | 1872 - 416 ページ
...of " The old house at home,'' taken from a sermon, preached before Edward and his Court. He says, " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own. He had only a farm of three or four pounds a year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 ページ
...of armour learn — old verb for teach kine— cows hospitality — open house wholesome — healthy My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of £3 or £4 by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 562 ページ
...acquainted with country affairs, tells us of the old time, in a well-known passage ; — " My fattier was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
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My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine. 
