 | Horace Walpole - 1759 - Počet stránok 288
...deth ; at which deth every '* man that was there might lern to dye, and " take his deth pacientlye. J The axe then did " at one blow cut off more learning than was " left in the heads of all the furviving No" bility." |) Fuller's Ch. Hifl. iv. 162. § Tamer. p. 716.... | |
 | 1786 - Počet stránok 828
...had he at Rome, in the prefence of our holy fader the pope, and in all other places unto his deth ! The axe then did at one blow cut off more learning than was in the heads of all the furviving nobility." Caxton was his contemporary ; and being alfo a zealous Yorkiit, could not but... | |
 | Robert Henry - 1788 - Počet stránok 356
...prefence of our holy « fader the pope, and in all other places unto his «c deth! The axe then did arone blow cut off more " learning than was in the heads of all the furviv*c ing nobility 3S." Caxton was his contemporary; and being alfo a zealous Yorkift, could not... | |
 | Robert Henry - 1800 - Počet stránok 356
...he at Rome, in the prefence of our holy " fader the pope, and in all other places unto his " deth ! The axe then did at one blow cut off more " learning than was in the heads of all the furviv" ing nobility 3V Caxton was his contemporary; and being alfo a zealous Yorkift, could not but... | |
 | Robert Henry - 1814 - Počet stránok 356
...he at Rome, in the prefence of our " holy fader the Pope, and in all other places ** unto his deth ! The axe then did at one blow " cut off more learning than was in the heads of " all the furviving nobility 3\" Caxton was his contemporary; and being alfo a zealous Yorkift, could not but... | |
 | John Gorton - 1833 - Počet stránok 918
...temporalité in science and moral vertue." Another writer, speaking of the earl's execution, says, " The axe then did at one blow cut off more learning than was left in the heads of all the surviving nobility." An opinion of the writer whose words are last quoted,... | |
 | 1834 - Počet stránok 532
...Worcester, who was executed on Tower Hill, on the 18th of October, 1470, and of whom it has been said that " the axe then did at one blow cut off more learning than was left in the [leads of all the surviving nobility." This light of a lark time was three times married,... | |
 | William Gray - 1835 - Počet stránok 122
...wonted pithy quaintness, after mentioning his barbarous and unjustifiable execution, " the axe did then, at one blow, cut off more learning than was in the heads of all the surviving nobility." The second mentioned worthy, sir John Fortescue, belongs in strict accuracy to the court of Henry the... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - Počet stránok 254
...had he at Rome in the presence of our holy father the pope, and in all other places unto his death I The axe then did at one blow cut off more learning...than was in the heads of all the surviving nobility." The earl translated Cicero's treatises ' De Amicitia,' and ' De Senectute,' which were printed by Caxton... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - 1837 - Počet stránok 370
...remarking on this event, Fuller, the church historian, pathetically adds, that " the axe did then, at one blow, cut off more learning than was in the heads of all the surviving nobility." Rivers enjoyed the smiles of fortune for a greater length of time, but at last, in 1483, persecuted... | |
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The axe then did at one blow cut off more learning than was in the heads of all the surviving nobility. 
