 | 1829 - 590 pages
...in beautiful and glowing language by Sir Thomas More, in his Utopia, — ' Your sheep,' says he, ' that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 586 pages
...Utopia, — 4 Your sheep,' says he, ' that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, -now become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities... | |
 | Patrick Edward Dove - Political science - 1856 - 532 pages
...beautiful and glowing language by Sir Thomas More, in his Utopia. " * Your sheep,' says he, < which were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1857 - 560 pages
...time on all economical questions. " Forsooth, my lord, quoth I," — he is addressing Morton, — " your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame,...great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities... | |
 | Thomas Edward Scrutton - Commons - 1887 - 202 pages
...had published his Utopia, and the first book set out complaints as to the realm of England 1 :— " Your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters now have become so great devourers and so wild that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.... | |
 | Thomas Mackay - England - 1889 - 328 pages
...landlords for rent-raising.1 Another cause of stealing he goes on to say is : — That your sheep, which were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters,...great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses and cities.... | |
 | Thomas Mackay - England - 1889 - 328 pages
...landlords for rent-raising.1 Another cause of stealing he goes on to say is : — That your sheep, which were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters,...great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses and cities.... | |
 | Thomas Mackay - England - 1889 - 320 pages
...landlords for rent-raising.' Another cause of stealing he goes on to say is : — That your sheep, which were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters,...great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses and cities.... | |
 | Charles Creighton - Epidemics - 1891 - 730 pages
...peculiar to you Englishmen alone.—What is that? quoth the Cardinal.—Forsooth, my lord, quoth I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame,...so great devourers and so wild that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy and devour whole fields, houses and cities.... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1891 - 344 pages
...complaint of More's was against the ever-growing increase of inclosures for pasturage. " Sheep,'1 he said, "be become so great devourers and so wild that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities."... | |
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I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and . „ swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses,... 
