 For nothing is more easy to be found, then be barking Scyllas, ravening Celenos, and Loestrygonians devourers of people, and such like great, and incredible monsters. But to find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding rare, and...  Rambles in Old London - Pagina 161door George Byron Gordon - 1924 - 334 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1875 - 380 pagina’s
...exposing ourselves to temptations without necessity), not employ our time in vain things.' EXERCISE 89. 1. To find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceedingly rare and hard thing. 2. They unite in hope of finding rapture, and, disappointed in that,... | |
 | Thomas More (st.) - 1879 - 354 pagina’s
...direct speaking would probably have been dangerous. He tells us (p. 23) that from Hythloday's narrative 'these our cities, nations, countries and kingdoms...example to amend their faults, enormities and errors.' Such reform is the drift of his whole narrative. We can see how his heart longed and laboured after... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 394 pagina’s
...multitudinous toed foot, or in the discovery of Eve's apple, or the serpent's tooth. This is common, "but to find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding rare and hard thing." He had, indeed, found many "fond and foolish laws" in these new-found lands, but also many good ones,... | |
 | William Edward Simonds - 1894 - 256 pagina’s
...labor and crime, and sought how to promote the interests of public health, education, and comfort. " Citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, — that is an exceeding rare and hard thing." Sir Thomas must have felt the truth of his own observation still more deeply when, but a few brief... | |
 | William Edward Simonds - 1894 - 248 pagina’s
...labor and crime, and sought how to promote the interests of public health, education, and comfort. " Citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, — that is an exceeding rare and hard thing." Sir Thomas must have felt the truth of his own observation still more deeply when, but a few brief... | |
 | Thomas More - 1908 - 258 pagina’s
...ravening Celenos, and Lestrygoncs, devourers of people, and such-like great and incredible monsters. But to find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws,...But as he marked many fond and foolish laws in those new-found lands, so he rehearsed divers acts and constitutions, whereby these our cities, nations,... | |
 | Thomas More - 1908 - 294 pagina’s
...Celaenos, and Laestrygonians, devourers of people, and such like great and incredible monsters ; but to find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws,...But as he marked many fond and foolish laws in those new-found lands, so he rehearsed many acts and constitutions whereby these our cities, nations, countries... | |
 | Saint Thomas More, Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1908 - 350 pagina’s
...direct speaking would probably have been dangerous. He tells us (p. 23) that from Hythloday's narrative 'these our cities, nations, countries and kingdoms...example to amend their faults, enormities and errors.' Such reform is the drift of his whole narrative. We can see how his heart longed and laboured after... | |
 | Niccolò Machiavelli - 1910 - 416 pagina’s
...Celenos, and Lrestrygonians devourers -of people, and such like great, and incredible monsters. But to find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws,...foolish laws in those new found lands, so he rehearsed many acts, and constitutions, whereby these our cities, nations, countries, and kingdoms may take example... | |
 | Niccolò Machiavelli - 1910 - 416 pagina’s
...Losstrygonians devourers of people, and such like great, and incredible monsters. But to find citizens v ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding...foolish laws in those new found lands, so he rehearsed many acts, and constitutions, whereby these our cities, nations, countries, and kingdoms may take example... | |
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