Remains Concerning BritainJ. R. Smith, 1870 - 446 pages |
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againſt alfo alſo amongſt ancient anſwered Arms becauſe beſt Biſhop Britain called cauſe Chriſtian Chriſtian names Conqueft coyned defcended divers doth Duke Earl Emperour England Engliſh Epitaph eſpecially faid faith fame father fecond feem fent fhall fhew fide fignifie filver fince firft firſt flain fome France French fuch furname greateſt Greek hæc hath heir himſelf honour horſe houſe jacet John King Edward King Henry King of England King Richard laſt Latine learned likewife Lord Mafter mihi moft moſt muſt never Noble obferved old Engliſh perfons pleaſe Poet preſent Prince purpoſe quæ quod quoth reſpect Romans ſaid Saint Saxon ſay ſee ſeem ſerve ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſon ſpeak ſpeech ſtate ſuch themſelves theſe Thomas thoſe thou thouſand tibi tongue underſtand unto uſed verſes Welſh Weſtminſter whofe whoſe wife William WILLIAM CAMDEN words
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Page 253 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all ? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care, and duty : ; Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 217 - ... him to make it of the same fashion, that the knight would have his made of. Not long after the knight coming to the...
Page 176 - Calice. with full saile, were so entertained here (although they were most ridiculous) by all degrees, by the learned and unlearned, that he was no body that could not hammer out of his name an invention by this wit-craft, and picture it accordingly : whereupon who did not busie his brains to hammer his device out of this forge?
Page 410 - ... characteristics, as revealed in his writings, appeared in his life. He was a pleasantmannered and a brave man, and called forth the affection as well as esteem of his contemporaries. We find no exaggeration in the epigraphic lines of George Buchanan — "Aschamum extinctum patriae, Graiaeque Camenaj Et Latiae, vera cum pietate, dolent ; Principibus vixit carus, jucundus amicis, Re modica, in mores dicere fama nequit.
Page 48 - The Dutch, manlike, but withal very harsh, as one ready at every word to pick a quarrel. Now we, in borrowing from them, give the strength of consonants to the Italian, the full sound of words to the French...
Page 50 - Christian names: after, for difference of families, which we call surnames, and have been especially respected, as whereon the glory and credit of men is grounded, and by which the same is conveyed to the knowledge of posterity; and every person had, in the beginning, one only proper name, as Adam, Joseph, &c.
Page 163 - Camden above two centuries ago, who said, that " whosoever considereth it well, shall find it always to be forged, and those names to be inserted which the time in every age favoured, and were never mentioned in the notable Record of Domesday.
Page 32 - Whereas our tongue is mixed it is no difgrace, / when as all the tongues of Europe do participate interchangeably the one of the other, and in the learned tongues there hath been like borrowing one from another ; as the...
Page 217 - VIII. of the proud humour which our people have to be of the gentlemen's cut.
Page 273 - But this Prelate was fit to be an Earl, for the world (as one of that Age faid of him) "was not crucifixus to him, but infixus in him.