 | Hannah Lawrance - 1838 - 474 pages
...family. You would smile to see the whole household laden on a cart, about to proceed on their journey. The road was too narrow for the passengers ; the path...thickly were they thronged with endless multitudes. Doubtless, never did so immense a people subject their unruly passions to one, or almost to no, direction.... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury) - 1847 - 582 pages
...you would smile to see the whole household laden on a carriage, about to proceed on their journey.f The road was too narrow for the passengers, the path...; never did so immense a population subject their unruly passions to one, and almost to no, direction. / For the strangest wonder to behold was, that... | |
 | 1854 - 452 pages
...Lord. And what can be greater happiness than for a man, in his life-time, to see those places which the Lord of heaven visited in his human nature? Blessed...subject their 1 The rustic, observes Guibert, shod hia oxen like horses, and placed his whole family on a cart ; where it was amiming to hear the children,... | |
 | 1854 - 448 pages
...human nature? Blessed are they, who, called to these occupations, shall inherit such a recom pense ; fortunate are those who are led to such a conflict,...imagination, though the itinerants were estimated at six millions.3 Doubtless, never did so many nations unite in one opinion ; never did so immense a population... | |
 | Charles Selby - 1854 - 338 pages
...proceeded, while grief oppressed those who remained. The roads were too narrow for the passengers, the paths too confined for the travellers, so thickly were they thronged with endless multitudes. Mnlmtbury, p. 364. The rustic shod his oxen like horses, and placed bis whole family in a cart, where... | |
 | William Elliot Dutton - 1877 - 286 pages
...carriage, about to proceed on their journey. The road was too narrow for the passengers, the paths too confined for the travellers, so thickly were they...imagination, though the itinerants were estimated at 6,000,000. Doubtless, never did so many nations unite in one opinion ; never did so immense a population... | |
 | James Gairdner - 1879 - 350 pages
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 | 1891 - 154 pages
...their journey. The road was too narrow for the passengers, the path too confined for the travelers, so thickly were they thronged with endless multitudes....though the itinerants were estimated at six millions." [Puicher, another chronicler, from whom Malmesbury largely draws, makes this estimate, but it is certainly... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury) - 1895 - 604 pages
...you would smile to see the whole household laden on a carriage, about to proceed on their journey, f The road was too narrow for the passengers, the path...imagination, though the itinerants were estimated at six millions-J Doubtless, never did so many nations unite in one opinion ; never did so immense a population... | |
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Joy attended such as went; while grief oppressed those who remained. But why do I say remained? You might see the husband departing with his wife, indeed, with all his family; you would smile to see the whole household laden on a carriage, about to proceed... 
