 | 1834 - 368 pages
...they, living at their ease, do no good to the public, resolve to do it hurt instead of good. They stop the course of agriculture, destroying houses and towns,...those worthy countrymen turn the best inhabited places into solitudes. For when an insatiable wretch, who is a plague to his country, resolves to enclose... | |
 | Saint Thomas More - 1841 - 372 pages
...they, living at their ease, do no good to the public, resolve to do it hurt instead of good. They stop the course of agriculture, destroying houses and towns, reserving only the churches, and inclose grounds that they may lodge their sheep in them ; as if forests and parks had swallowed up... | |
 | Gaius Sallustius Crispus - 1860 - 330 pages
...destroying houses and towns, reserving only the churehes, and inelose grounds that they may lodge sheep on them. As if forests and parks had swallowed up too...those worthy countrymen turn the best inhabited places into solitudes; for when an unsatiable wreteh, who is a plague to his country, resolves to inelose... | |
 | Christoph Martin Wieland - 1861 - 362 pages
...too little soil, those worthy countrymen turn the best inhabited places into solitudes, for when any insatiable wretch, who is a plague to his country,...thousand acres of ground, the owners, as well as tenants, turned out of their possessions by tricks, or by main force, or being wearied out with ill-usage, they... | |
 | George Long - 1864 - 546 pages
...they living at their ease do no good to the public, resolve to do it hurt instead of good. They stop the course of agriculture, destroying houses and towns,...those worthy countrymen turn the best inhabited places into solitudes ; for when an insatiable wretch, who is a plague to his country, resolves to enclose... | |
 | George Long - 1864 - 538 pages
...had swallowed up too little of the land, those worthy countrymen turn the best inhabited places into solitudes; for when an insatiable wretch, who is a plague to his country, resolves to enclose many thousand acres of ground, the owners as well as tenants are turned out of their possessions... | |
 | Henry de Beltgens Gibbins - 1892 - 266 pages
...they, living at their ease, do no good to the public, resolve to do it hurt instead of good. They stop the course of agriculture, destroying houses and towns, reserving only the churches that they may lodge their sheep in them. For when an insatiable wretch, who is a plague to his country,... | |
 | Henry de Beltgens Gibbins - 1896 - 582 pages
...unpeople not only villages but towns." Land-owners, and " even those holy men the abbots," he says, " stop the course of agriculture, destroying houses and towns, reserving only the churches and enclosed grounds, that they may lodge their sheep in them." The result was a terrible increase of pauperism,... | |
 | CHARLES M. ANDREWS, PhD - 1901 - 376 pages
...they, living at their ease, do no good to the public, resolve to do it hurt instead of good. They stop the course of agriculture, destroying houses and towns, reserving only the churches, and inclose grounds that they may lodge their sheep in them. As if forests and parks had swallowed up too... | |
 | 1901 - 344 pages
...they, living at their ease, do no good to the public, resolve to do it hurt instead of good. They stop the course of agriculture, destroying houses and towns, reserving only the churches, and inclose grounds that they may lodge their sheep in them. As if forests and parks had swallowed up too... | |
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... there the nobility and gentry and even those holy men the abbots, not contented with the old rents which their farms yielded, nor thinking it enough that they living at their ease do no good to the public, resolve to do it hurt instead of good. They... 
