| 1873 - 824 sivua
...to provide an entertainment for a person than a groat to assist him in any distress,' 18 and that ' 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. Whenever they see a handsome... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 sivua
...the 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... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 sivua
...braggadocio, quoting as quite apposite what was written nearly three centuries ago by a Venetian traveler : " 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." Speaking in his own person,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 sivua
...city." A much older traveller, the Venetian who wrote the ' ' Relation of England,"* in 1500, says: than themselves, and no other world but England ; and, whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they... | |
| Douglas Campbell - 1892 - 582 sivua
...The Venetian traveller who wrote tbc "Relation of England," in 1500, nearly four centuries ago, 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 say... | |
| Douglas Campbell - 1892 - 590 sivua
...traveller who wrote the "Relation of England," in I.I00, nearly four centuries ago, says: "The English arc 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 sec a handsome foreigner they say... | |
| Wilhelm Busch - 1895 - 470 sivua
...the same words : " They have great affection for themselves and for all that they have. They fancy there are no other men but themselves, and no other world but England ; " their highest praise for a stranger is that he looks like an Englishman. " They have a dislike... | |
| Mandell Creighton - 1896 - 54 sivua
...possessions. 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... | |
| William Cunningham - 1897 - 332 sivua
...their teachers. The insular contempt for the alien was remarked on by a Venetian ambassador long ago. " 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... | |
| Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 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... | |
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