Sir Thomas More: Selections from His English Works and from the Lives of Erasmus & Roper

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Clarendon Press, 1924 - 191 Seiten

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Seite 34 - Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thine honesty.
Seite 15 - I find his grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me, as any subject within this realm : howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I...
Seite 163 - Howbeit, if we have more now than ye shall need, and which can get them other masters, ye may then discharge us of them. But I would not that any man were suddenly sent away, he wot not whither.
Seite 34 - Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.
Seite 74 - I shall rehearse you the dolorous end of those babes, not after every way that I have heard, but after that way that I have so heard by such men and by such means as me thinketh it were hard but it should be true.
Seite 33 - ... and bills went round about him, hastily ran to him, and there openly in the sight of them all, embraced him, took him about the neck and kissed him.
Seite 169 - Our Lord bless you good daughter and your good husband and your little boy and all yours and all my children and all my godchildren and all our friends. Recommend me when...
Seite 33 - ... about him, suddenly turned back again, ran to him as before, took him about the neck, and divers times together most lovingly kissed him, and at last with a full 250 heavy heart was fain to depart from him.
Seite 20 - that some of us, as high as we seem to sit upon the mountains treading heretics under our feet like ants, live not the day that we gladly would wish to be at league and composition with them to let them have their churches quietly to themselves, so that they would be contented to let us have ours quietly to ourselves.
Seite 15 - I thank our Lord, son, (quoth he,) I find his Grace my very good Lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this realm ; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof ; for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us) it should not fail to go.

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