 God wot! not contenting themselves with the yearly revenues and profits that were wont to grow to their forefathers and predecessors of their lands, nor being content that they live in rest and pleasure — nothing profiting, yea, much annoying the weal...  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 2401829Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Niccolò Machiavelli - 1910 - 416 pagina’s
...nothing profiting, yea much annoying the weal public, leave no ground for tillage, they inclose all in pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck down...and leave nothing standing, but only the church to make of it a sheephouse. And as though you lost no small quantity of ground by forests, chases, lawns,... | |
 | Niccolò Machiavelli - 1910 - 416 pagina’s
...nothing profiting, yea much annoying the weal public, leave no ground for tillage, they inclose all in pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck down...and leave nothing standing, but only the church to make of it a sheephouse. And as though you lost no small quantity of ground by forests, chases, lawns,... | |
 | J. Ramsay Macdonald - 1911 - 264 pagina’s
...pleasure, nothing profiting—yea, much noying the weal-public, leave no ground for tillage: they inclose all into pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck...nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep-house." The increasing numbers of sheep did not, however, lead to a reduction in the price of... | |
 | James Ramsay MacDonald - 1911 - 270 pagina’s
...pleasure, nothing profiting — yea, much noying the weal-public, leave no ground for tillage: they inclose all into pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck...nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep-house." The increasing numbers of sheep did not, however, lead to a reduction in the price of... | |
 | Henry Hill Goodell, Calvin Stebbins - 1911 - 364 pagina’s
...abbots that lease no grounds for tillage; that enclose all into pasture, and throw down houses; that pluck down towns and leave 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... | |
 | Arthur Donald Innes - 1912 - 404 pagina’s
...being content that they live in rest and pleasure nothing profiting, yea, much noying the weal public, leave no ground for tillage ; they enclose all into...nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheephouse. Therefore it is that one covetous and unsatiable cormorant and very plague of his native... | |
 | Arthur Donald Innes - 1912 - 398 pagina’s
...nothing profiting — yea, much noying the weal-public, leave no ground for tillage : they inclose all into pastures ; they throw down houses ; they...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,... | |
 | 1913 - 192 pagina’s
...being content that they live in rest in pleasure nothing profiting, yea much noying the weal public: leave no ground for tillage; they enclose all into...nothing standing but only the church, to be made a sheephouse. And as though you lost no small quantity of ground by forests, chases, lawns, and parks,... | |
 | Gladys Temperley - 1914 - 512 pagina’s
...certain abbots, holy men no doubt, that leave no ground for tillage, they enclose all into pasture, they throw down houses, they pluck down towns and...standing, but only the church to be made a sheep house." 2 The situation presented elements of grave political danger. The depopulation of the countryside,... | |
 | Willis Mason West - 1915 - 908 pagina’s
...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... | |
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