| 1919 - 628 sivua
...pardoned for going beyond the bounds of our subject in quoting the following passage as a specimen. "The English are great lovers of themselves, and of...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... | |
| Frederick Joseph Kinsman - 1920 - 324 sivua
...complacence. There was plenty of this in the sixteenth century. As the Venetian ambassador wrote home : " The English are great lovers of themselves and of...men but themselves and no other world but England, and whenever they see a handsome foreigner they say, ' he looks like an Englishman,' or that ' it is... | |
| Charles Harold Williams - 1925 - 312 sivua
...understood from persons acquainted with these countries, that the Scotch are much handsomer; and that the English are great lovers of themselves, and of...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... | |
| 1926 - 328 sivua
...descriptions of the national character we may select that of Andrea Trevisano, Venetian Ambassador in 1497. " The English are great lovers of themselves and of...belonging to them. They think that there are no other men like themselves, and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they... | |
| 1926 - 600 sivua
...years ago. In 1498 Andrea Trevisano, a shrewd observer and Venetian Ambassador in England, wrote : — The English are great lovers of themselves, and of...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... | |
| 1926 - 714 sivua
...acquainted with these * «'.«., the writer. 204 105 countries, that the Scotch ire much handsomer; and that the English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them; they think there arc no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and whenever they see a handsome... | |
| 1926 - 614 sivua
...with these 1 ii, the writer. countries, that the Scotch are much handsomer; and that the English arc great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them; they think there arc no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and whenever they see a handsome... | |
| Geoffrey Rudolph Elton - 1982 - 442 sivua
...to the land of Israel, the special object of God's interest and affection. It was said of them that The English are great lovers of themselves, and of...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... | |
| Kenneth O. Morgan - 2000 - 724 sivua
...Italian visitor around 1 500, when England's overseas 'empire' was all but lost, could still report that 'the English are great lovers of themselves and of...belonging to them. They think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and when they see a handsome foreigner they say that... | |
| Ian Dawson, Paul Watson - 1991 - 86 sivua
...1430s) Source K The English are great lovers of themselves. They think that there are no other men than themselves and no other world but England. Whenever they see a handsome foreigner they say 'he looks like an Englishman'. They do not like foreigners. (A report by a Venetian ambassador in 1497)... | |
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