 | Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, Robert John Weston Evans - 2000 - 268 sivua
...allowed the English to be 'great lovers of themselves and of everythmg belongmg to them: they thmk there are no other men but themselves, and no other world but England'." An Englishwoman, visiting the Rhineland, bridled at being called a foreigner. 'No', she retorted, "tis... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2001 - 444 sivua
...Relation of England by a Venetian in 1500, three hundred and fifty years ago, I find a similar testimony: "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 - 2001 - 804 sivua
...Italian visitor around 1500, 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 bul England; and when they see a handsome foreigner they say that... | |
 | Stephen Caunce - 2004 - 294 sivua
...practicality and independence of mind.4 But the darker side of Englishness was also much remarked on. 'The English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them; they think there are no other men than themselves and no other world but England', wrote the Venetian Ambassador... | |
 | Michael Wyatt - 2005 - 404 sivua
...sounds a note that he repeats elsewhere, the determined self-referentiality of the English, for: [they 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... | |
 | Virginia M. Fellows - 2006 - 383 sivua
...many have tried. In 1497 the Venetian ambassador to the queen's court wrote in apparent frustration: 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 Whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they say that... | |
 | Trevor Male - 2006 - 145 sivua
...The second aspect is that ineffable sense of superiority. The Venetian ambassador reported in 1497: "The English are great lovers of themselves and of everything belonging to them. They think there are no other men like themselves and no other world but England". My study of the field of national... | |
 | Robert Appelbaum - 2008 - 399 sivua
...national/ethnic purity become increasingly adamant and even shrill over the course of the centuries. "The English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them," complained a Venetian visitor in about the year 1500; "they think that there are no other men than... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 241 sivua
...city." A much older traveller, the Venetian who wrote the " Relation of England," * in 1500, says : " 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... | |
 | Society for Army Historical Research (London, England) - 1921 - 628 sivua
...or Reporter, in I4<j*. for the information of Andrea Trevisano, the Venetian Ambassador in England. "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 a handsome foreigner thev say that... | |
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Scotch are much handsomer; and that 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... 
