Alien Immigrants to England

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S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1897 - 286 sivua
 

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Sivu 264 - The English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them. They think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and, whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they say that he looks like an Englishman...
Sivu 20 - I once before put it,2 it is now that the Conquest actually begins. The reign of Eadward is a period of struggle between natives and foreigners for dominion in England. The foreigners gradually win the upper hand, and for a time they are actually dominant. Then a national reaction overthrows their influence, and the greatest of living Englishmen becomes the virtual ruler. But this happy change did not...
Sivu 264 - England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they say that ' he looks like an Englishman,' and that ' it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ;' and when they partake of any delicacy with a foreigner, they ask him ' whether such a thing is made in their country...
Sivu ix - To leave out nine-tenths of the national life, and to call the rest a history of the nation, is misleading. It is so misleading that, treated in this mutilated manner, history has no pretension to be a science : it becomes a ponderous chronicle, full of details which, in the absence of any other guiding principle, are held together by chronology. Writers of great name and power escape from this limitation, which, however, holds sway for the most part in the books that reach the great majority of...
Sivu viii - Social questions are to-day taking the foreQuestions. mogt place in public interest ; the power behind the statesman is seen to be greater in controlling contemporary history than the eloquence or experience of any single man. We see this to be so now, and our knowledge of the present suggests the question whether it has not always been so ; and whether the life of society, though it has not had the same comparative weight, has not always been a more important factor than the life of the individual....
Sivu xi - But» apart from the probable extension of an^&f. ur< the series, sufficient works have already been arranged for to describe some leading features of English social life, and to point out some of the numerous highways which lead to a great centre, passing through different provinces, which all have their local colour, but the lives of whose inhabitants need also to be known if we are to understand the country as a whole, and not merely the court and parliament of the capital. The...
Sivu 119 - ... said realm with their wives, children and household, and will not take upon them any laborious occupation, as going to plough and cart, and other like business, but use the making of cloth and other handicrafts and easy occupations, and bring and convey from the parts beyond the sea, great substance of wares and merchandises to fairs and markets, and all other places of this realm at their pleasure, and there sell the same, as well by retail as otherwise...
Sivu xiv - Life. .... ... for the better; the effect of rivers, mountains, and seas in fixing the boundaries of kingdoms and subkingdoms, in altering or preserving languages, in determining politics and the opinions of districts, and, the chief point of all, in deciding the character of what bids fair to be the language of commerce, and probably of all international communication. As it is important to know where men lived The Homes .... and Household in relation to the world at large in order to Implements.
Sivu 92 - Whereas diverse persons do resort unto the city, some from parts beyond the sea, and others of this land, and do there seek shelter and refuge, by reason of banishment out of their own country, or who for great offence or other misdeeds have fled from their own country, and of these some do become brokers, hostelers and innkeepers within the saide city, for denizens and strangers, as freely as though they were good and lawful men of the franchise of the city ; and some nothing do but run up and down...
Sivu 96 - ... the Libelle of English Polycye. The grete galleys of Venees and Fflorence Be wel ladene with thynges of complacence Alle spicerye, and of grocers ware, Wyth swete wynes, alle manere of chaffare, Apes, and japes and marmaaettes taylede, Trifles, trifles that litelle have availede And thynges wyth whiche they fetely blere oure eye, With thynges not enduryng that we bye.

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