 (quoth 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,...  Machiavelli, More, and Luther - Page 152by Niccolò Machiavelli, Martin Luther, William Roper, Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1910 - 397 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Douglas Earl of Selkirk - Social Science - 1805 - 312 pages
...crimes in England, which he introduces 2 in the first book of Utopia, he expresses himself as follows: ' Your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame,...great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and swal' low down the very men themselves. They consume, ' destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1829 - 586 pages
...depicted 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... | |
 | Philip Miller - 1834 - 250 pages
...in his Utopia, " that were wont to be so meek and tame, and such small eaters, are now become such great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves." " One covetous and unsatiable cormorant, and very plague of his native country, compasses about and... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Agricultural chemistry - 1842 - 1364 pages
...his Utopia, " that were wont to be so meek and tome, and such small caters, arc now become such Treat devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves."—" One covetous and unsatiablc cormorant, and very plague of his native country, compasses about and encloses... | |
 | Patrick Edward Dove - Political science - 1856 - 532 pages
...beautiful and glowing language by Sir Thomas More, in his Utopia. " 4 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 - 1874 - 560 pages
...his 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,...consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities: for look, in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest and therefore dearest wool,—there,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1286 pages
...all economical questions. '• Forsooth, my lord, quoth I,"—lie is addressing Morton,—"yoursheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small...consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities : for look, in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest and therefore dearest wool,— there,... | |
 | Michael W. Smith - English literature - 1882 - 444 pages
...proper and 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, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1884 - 608 pages
...Utopia,' and the traveller who had seen the perfect commonwealth was made to say of England :— 'Tour sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small esters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat tip and swallow... | |
 | 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.... | |
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