 | John Marsh (rector of North Baddesley.) - 1808 - 130 sivua
...age, small merits of " courtiers met with prodigious recompense for their service. Not " only all the cooks, but the meanest turn-broach in the King's " kitchen, did lick his fingers." He then proceeds to mention several instances of the King's shameful waste of abbey lands. — History... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1837 - 562 sivua
...age, small merits of courtiers met with a prodigious recompence for their service. Not only all the cooks, but the meanest turn-broach in the king's kitchen, did lick his fingers. Yea, the king's servants, to the third and fourth degree, tasted of his liberality ; it being but proportionable,... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1837 - 564 sivua
...age, small merits of courtiers met with a prodigious recompence for their service. Not only all the cooks, but the meanest turn-broach in the king's kitchen, did lick his fingers. Yea, the king's servants, to the third and fourth degree, tasted of his liberality ; it being but proportionable,... | |
 | 1841 - 686 sivua
...nobility and gentry sharers in the plunder, and thereby bribed to defend the iniquitous proceeding, but " the meanest turnbroach in the King's kitchen did lick his fingers !" On one occasion the King gave a religious house of some value to a woman cook for making a dish... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1867 - 552 sivua
...of a lawyer, a churchman, or a woman during that period." 2 According to Fuller, " not only all the cooks, but the meanest turnbroach, in the King's kitchen, did lick his fingers." 1 Fuller's Church History, p. 337. Socrates, in the " Gorgias " of Plato, divides adulation into several... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1867 - 538 sivua
...of a lawyer, a churchman, or a woman during that period."' According to Fuller, " not only all the cooks, but the meanest turnbroach, in the King's) kitchen, did lick his fingers." 1 Fuller's Church Histery, p. 337. 2 Moore's Life of Byron vol. ip 479, Socrates, in the " Gorgias... | |
 | John Henry Blunt - 1868 - 606 sivua
...age, small merits of courtiers met with a prodigious recompence for their service. Not only all the cooks, but the meanest turn-broach in the King's kitchen did lick his fingers." l He also gives the following illustrations of the reckless manner in which Henry VIII. made away with... | |
 | John Henry Blunt - 1869 - 604 sivua
...age, small merits of courtiers met with a prodigious recompence for their service. Not only all the cooks, but the meanest turn-broach in the King's kitchen did lick his fingers." l He also gives the following illustrations of the reckless manner in which Henry VIII. made away with... | |
 | Mary Charlotte Stapley - 1875 - 542 sivua
...to curry favour with their thoughtless monarch. " Not only all the cooks," quaintly remarks Fuller, "but the meanest turnbroach in the King's kitchen did lick his fingers ; yea, the King's servants of the third and fourth degree tasted of his liberality." On one occasion,... | |
 | Francis Adams - 1882 - 370 sivua
...ecclesiastical. " Small merits of courtiers met with a prodigious recompense for their services ; not only the cooks, but the meanest turn-broach in the King's kitchen did lick his fingers," ( 2 ) and such gifts as were made for education, often shrank in their passage through the hands of... | |
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Yet it is certain, that, in this age, small merits of courtiers met with a prodigious recompence for their service. Not only all the cooks, but the meanest turn-broach in the king's kitchen, did lick his fingers. 
