 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 284 sivua
...Venetian who wrote the " Relation of England," l in 1500, says : — " The English are great lovers oi 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... | |
 | Mandell Creighton - 1903 - 416 sivua
...The earliest account of England from outside is that of a Venetian ambassador in 1497. He says : " 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 say... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 436 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1908 - 336 sivua
...critics and with a certain amount of complacency by himself. In the year 1500 a Venetian traveller 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... | |
 | 1909 - 540 sivua
...city." A much older traveller, the Venetian who wrote the "Relation of England,"1 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 sivua
...city." A much older traveller, the Venetian who wrote the " Relation of England," 1 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... | |
 | Francis Aidan Gasquet - 1912 - 378 sivua
...the weak points of the character of the people he was describing. M,p.51. " The English," he wrote, " are great lovers of themselves and of everything belonging...men but themselves and no other world but England, and whenever they see a handsome foreigner they say that ' he looks like an Englishman,' or that '... | |
 | Annie Abram - 1913 - 504 sivua
...peculiarly unpleasant, and perhaps he smarted under it himself, for he says with some bitterness, " 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... | |
 | Gladys Temperley - 1914 - 504 sivua
...foreigners and insular pride, their great wealth and avarice. Ibid., pp. 20, 21, 23, 25, 28, 29, 72. selves, and of everything belonging to them ; they think that...men but themselves, and no other world but England." 1 It was to this awakening patriotism that Henry VII. later successfully appealed. It was a formidable... | |
 | Alice Stopford Green - 1919 - 606 sivua
...from any political questions, had a prejudice in favour of their own, and against any other system. " 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... | |
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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... 
