 ... were fewer, less was done in the winter months, and saint-days and Sundays were mercifully interspersed in the seasons of fair weather. Games of every sort were the lawful amusements of idle hours and of festivals; we have lost infinitely more from...  The Early and Middle Ages of England - Page 206by Charles Henry Pearson - 1861 - 472 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Henry Pearson - 1867 - 732 pages
...homesteads. Adders and other reptiles swarmed in the woods, wolves and thieves lurked in the covert, and the traveller went armed on his journey. Yet from...from the Saxon book of sports than we have added to p. 147. In the ordinances of the supply horses, labour and farm for Dunsetas, a horse is valued at... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - 1867 - 706 pages
...portion of daily labour exacted from the working man was as much as human toil could accomplish ;' but the working days were fewer, less was done in...from the Saxon book of sports than we have added to p. 147. In the ordinances of the supply horses, labour and farm for Dunsetas, a horse is valued at... | |
 | 1879 - 214 pages
...The portion of daily labor exacted from the working man was as much as human toil could accomplish ; but the working days were fewer, less was done in...sort were the lawful amusements of idle hours and festivals; we have lost infinitely more from the Saxon book of sports than we have added to it. It... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1881 - 368 pages
...labor exacted from the workingman was as much as human toil could accomplish ; but the working-days were fewer, less was done in the- winter months, and...is melancholy to know that in the eighth century a laboring-man was disgraced among his fellows if he could not sing to the harp, and to consider that... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1893 - 460 pages
...labor exacted from the workingman was as much as human toil could accomplish; but the working-days were fewer, less was done in the winter months, and...is melancholy to know that in the eighth century a laboring-man was disgraced among his fellows if he could not sing to the harp, and to consider that... | |
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