 | Willis Mason West - 1915 - 908 sivua
...Compelled to sell. . . . They [the landlords] throw down houses; they pluck down towns [villages], and leave nothing standing but only the church, to be made a sheep-house." " By one means or another, either by hook or by crook, they must needs depart, poor wretched... | |
 | William Henry Ricketts Curtler - 1920 - 366 sivua
...gentlemen 'leave no ground for tillage, they enclose all into pasture, they throw down houses, they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing but only the church to be made a sheep house '. And • Latimer said, ' Where there was a great many of householders there is now but a shepherd... | |
 | Willis Mason West - 1920 - 872 sivua
...compelled to sell. . . . They [the landlords] throw down houses; they pluck down towns [villages], and leave nothing standing but only the church, to be made a sheep-house." Then of the peasants, driven from their homes: "By one means or another, either by hook... | |
 | Willis Mason West - 1920 - 826 sivua
...be compelled to sell. . . They [the landlords] throw down houses ; they pluck down towns [villages], and leave nothing standing but only the church, to be made a sheep-house." Then More gives this piteous picture of the peasants who have been driven from their... | |
 | Milton Briggs - 1921 - 552 sivua
...abbots .... 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." He pictures an imaginary island, in which affairs of life are well ordered. In Utopia... | |
 | Willis Mason West - 1922 - 1076 sivua
...compelled to sell. . . . They [the landlords) throw down houses ; they pluck down towns [villages], and leave nothing standing but only the church, to be made a sheep-house." Other statesmen, too, bewailed that sheep should take the Passing of place of the yeomanry... | |
 | Charles Lethbridge Kingsford - 1925 - 240 sivua
...lamented, ' leave no ground for tillage, they enclose all in pastures ; they throw down houses : they pluck down towns : and leave nothing standing but only the church to make it a sheep house.' 4 A statement, perhaps rhetorical only, which appears in a statute of Henry... | |
 | Robert Unwin - 1996 - 124 sivua
...abbots ... leave no ground for tillage, they enclose all into pastures: they throw down houses ... pluck down towns and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made into a sheephouse ... the husbandmen be thrust out of their own ... they must needs depart away ...... | |
 | Oliver O'Donovan, Joan Lockwood O'Donovan - 1999 - 868 sivua
...weal-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 sheep-house. And as though you lost no small quantity of ground by forests, chases, lands, and parks,... | |
 | Lionel Basney - 2000 - 176 sivua
...contemporary observers most sharply. Thomas More wrote in 1516 that enclosing abbots "throw down houses: they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheephouse." Oliver Goldsmith's well-known lament The Deserted Village (1770) puts obvious, primary... | |
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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. 
