 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...in those days, " it was thought sufficient for noblemen to winde their horn, and to carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people." This diversion was, among the old English, the pride of the rich, and the privilege of the poor ; no... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 428 pages
...prerogatives of the clergy ; and when * " it was enough for noblemens sons to wind their horn, and carry their hawke fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people ;" it is no wonder that our old peers produced no larger, nor more elegant compositions, than the inscription... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1812 - 696 pages
...Secretary of his KING, " It is enough for NOBLEMEN'S Sons to wind their Horn and carry their Haiiik fair, and leave Study and Learning to the Children of mean People." And that a Writer upon Agricultural Subjects at that period recommends to Gentlemen who knew not Tiow... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...those days, it was thought sufficient for a nobleman to winde their horn, and t<i carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people. The former were the accomplishments of the times ; Spenser makes his gallant Sir Tristram boast, Ne... | |
 | Jehoshaphat Aspin - England - 1825 - 330 pages
...hunting; it being then " thought sufficient for noblemen to winde their horn, and to carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people ;" in the evening they celebrated their exploits with the most abandoned and brutish sottishness ;... | |
 | Emma Roberts - Great Britain - 1827 - 680 pages
...enough," said he to the king's secretary, " for noblemen's sons to wind their horn and carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people." Although the chief strength of the English army still consisted in its archers, which excelled those... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...in those days ' it was thought sufficient for noblemen to winde their horn, and to carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people!' In short, this diversion was, among the ancient English, the pride of the rich, and the pnnlege of... | |
 | 1851
...for in those days it was thought sufficient for noblemen to wind their horu, and to carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people. Great was the expense that attended this sport. In the reign of James the First, Sir Thomas Monson... | |
 | Jehoshaphat Aspin - Amusements - 1832 - 302 pages
...hunting ; it being then " thought sufficient for noblemen to wind their horn, and to carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people ;" in the evening, they celebrated their exploits with the most abandoned and brutish sottishness ;... | |
 | Christian life - 1835 - 480 pages
...for, in those days, it was thought sufficient for noblemen to wind their horn and to carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people ! In the reign of James i., Sir Thomas Morison is said to have given £1000 for a cast of hawks : we... | |
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Knowing the good Squire's hobby, therefore, I have not been surprised... 
