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" An Englishman, indeuoring sometime to write of our attire, made sundrie platformes for his purpose, supposing by some of them to find out one stedfast ground whereon to build the summe of his discourse. But in the end (like an oratour long without exercise)... "
The Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge Made by Andrew Borde, of ... - Page 93
by Andrew Boorde - 1870 - 396 pages
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The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of ...

Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Embroidery - 1841 - 424 pages
...celebrated for her devotion at Fashion's shrine ; for we are told that " an Englishman, endevoring sometime to write of our attire, made sundrie platformes...the summe of his discourse. But in the end (like an orator long without exercise) when he saw what a difficult peece of worke he had taken in hand, he...
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The art of needle-work, from the earliest ages [by E. Stone] ed. by the ...

Elizabeth Stone - 1841 - 446 pages
...celebrated for her devotion at Fashion's shrine ; for we are told that " an Englishman, endevoring sometime to write of our attire, made sundrie platformes...the summe of his discourse. But in the end (like an orator long without exercise) when he saw what a difficult peece of worke he had taken in hand, he...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...11., CHAP, vii.) An Englishman, endeavouring sometime to write of our attire, made sundry platforms for his purpose, supposing by some of them to find out one steadfast ground whereon to build the sum of his discourse. But in the end, when he saw what a difficult...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...English. An Englishman [Andrew Boord], endeavouring sometime to write of our attire, made sundry platforms rydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with th steadfast ground whereon to build the sum of his discourse. But in the end, when he saw what a difficult...
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American History Told by Contemporaries, Volume 1

Albert Bushnell Hart - America - 1897 - 666 pages
...citie in Europe, that may compare in port and countenance with him during the time of his office. . . . An Englishman indeuoring sometime to write of our...the end (like an oratour long without exercise) when he saw what a difficult peece of worke he had taken in hand, he gaue ouer his trauell, and onelie drue...
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Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed

Jean Froissart, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison - England - 1910 - 446 pages
...II., Chapter 7.] AI Englishman, endeavouring sometime to write of our attire, made sundry platforms for his purpose, supposing by some of them to find out one steadfast ground whereon to build the sum of his discourse. But in the end (like an orator long without...
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Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed. With Introductions ...

England - 1910 - 400 pages
...Book IL, Chapter 7.] A Englishman, endeavouring sometime to write of our ature, made sundry platforms for his purpose, supposing by some of them to find out one steadfast ground whereon to build the sum of his discourse. But in the end (like an orator long without...
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Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed

Jean Froissart, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison - England - 1910 - 420 pages
...II., Chapter 7.] AI Englishman, endeavouring sometime to write of our attire, made sundry platforms for his purpose, supposing by some of them to find out one steadfast ground whereon to build the sum of his discourse. But in the end (like an orator long without...
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Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed

Jean Froissart, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison - England - 1910 - 424 pages
...II., Chapter 7.] AN Englishman, endeavouring sometime to write of Z\ our attire, made sundry platforms for his purpose, • » supposing by some of them to find out one steadfast ground whereon to build the sum of his discourse. But in the end (like an orator long without...
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Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed. With Introductions ...

England - 1910 - 432 pages
...Chapter 7.] AN Englishman, endeavouring sometime to write oí ¿\ our attire, made sundry platforms for his purpose, -*—*- supposing by some of them to find out one steadfast ground whereon to build the sum of his discourse. But in the end (like an orator long without...
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