 | John Horace Round - 1901 - 570 sivua
...It was the fate of such villages as these that had stirred Sir Thomas More to his outburst against " the noblemen and gentlemen, yea, and certain abbots,...that pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, 1 4 Home. 286 but only the church, to be made into a sheep house." l The social position of John Spencer,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 sivua
...pastures for the sheep of the rich abbots. " They inclose all into pastures ; they throw down houses, they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing but only the church to be made a sheep-house." Thus husbandmen were thrust out of their own ; thus victual had grown dear. Many were... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1903 - 884 sivua
...only puts this more epigrammatically when he says, " Where hath been many to check Agricultural Decay. 1509] houses and churches to the honour of God, now...and throw down houses ; that pluck down towns and leavd nothing standing, but only the church, to be made a sheep house." WE have seen (p. 533) that... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1902 - 1258 sivua
...all," and goes on to denounce the noblemen and gentlemen, yea, and certain abbots that lease no grounds for tillage ; that enclose all into pasture, and throw...nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheephouse. In a word, then, the monks were the scientific farmers of the day. They had access to all... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 442 sivua
...publick — leave no ground for tillage ; they enclose all into pastures, they throw down houses, they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing but only the church to be made a sheephouse. And, as though you lost no small quantity of ground by forests, chases, lands, and parks,... | |
 | Willis Mason West - 1903 - 756 sivua
...compelled to sell. . . . They [the landlords] throw down houses ; they pluck down towus [villages], and leave nothing standing but only the church, to be made a sheep-house." 1 Statesmen bewailed that sheep should take the place of the yeomanry who had won Crecy... | |
 | William Buck Guthrie - 1907 - 374 sivua
...pleasure — nothing profiting — yea much noying the weal-public — lease no ground for tillage ; they pluck down towns and leave nothing standing but only the church to be made a sheep-house." * Thus More sets forth one of the fruitful causes of social unrest and of individual... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 sivua
...public, leave no ground for tillage ; they inclose all into pastures ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church, to be made a sheep house. And as though you lost no small quantity of ground by forests, chases, lawns, and parks, those good... | |
 | Thomas More - 1908 - 258 sivua
...public : leave no ground for tillage, they enclose all into pastures : they throw down houses : they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheephouse. And as though you lost no small quantity of ground by forests, chases, lands, and parks,... | |
 | George Cadbury (jr.), Tom Bryan - 1908 - 214 sivua
...small country villages ,.w.ejcfi- depopulated. " They throw down houses," says Sir Thomas More, " they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheephouse. And as though you lost no small quantity of ground by forests, chases, lands and parkes,... | |
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... leave no ground for tillage, they enclose all into pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck down towns and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep house. 
