 | Joseph Strutt - England - 1838 - 420 pages
...Pace, secretary to king Henry VIII., " It is enough for the sons of noblemen to wind their horn and carry their hawke fair, and leave study and learning to the children of meaner people." 2 Many of the pastimes that had been countenanced by the nobility, and sanctioned by... | |
 | 592 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. Great was the expense that attended this sport. In the reign of James I., Sir Thomas Monson is said... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1870 - 614 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. Great was the expense that attended this sport. In the reign of James I., Sir Thomas Monson is said... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 158 pages
...those of the Italians.* NOTE 33. " It was thought enough for a nobleman's sons to winde their home, and to carry their hawke fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people." f NOTE 34. Magdalen College was founded by William Patten of Waynfleet, Bishop of Winchester, for a... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1849 - 502 pages
...even a lady of rank did not think herself completely equipped, in riding forth, unless she had her tassel-gentel held by jesses on her delicate hand....the various recreations of former times which he has endeavored to revive in the little world in which he rules, he has bestowed great attention on the... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 508 pages
...even a lady of rank did not think herself completely equipped, in riding forth, unless she had her tassel-gentel held by jesses on her delicate hand....the various recreations of former times which he has endeavored to revive in the h'ttle world in which he rules, he has bestowed great attention on the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 510 pages
...even a lady of rank did not think herself completely equipped, in riding forth, unless she had her tassel-gentel held by jesses on her delicate hand....the various recreations of former times which he has endeavored to revive in the little world in which he rules, he has bestowed great attention on the... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 524 pages
...even a lady of rank did not think herself completely equipped, in riding forth, unless she had her tassel-gentel held by jesses on her delicate hand....the various recreations of former times which he has endeavored to revive in the little world in which he rules, he has bestowed great attention on the... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1851 - 492 pages
...? In those early days when it was thought " quite sufficient for noblemen to winde their horn, and carry their hawke fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people" — in those days when men secured themselves inside thick walls and behind deep moats, and when women... | |
 | Marcius Willson - America - 1856 - 718 pages
...is enough/' remarked one of them, '-for noblemen's гопя to wind their horn, and carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people/' *" ¿впил' ^ ^' 2-^b°ut the commencement of the sixteenth century, howerîr, àbmu "tu learning... | |
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Knowing the good Squire's hobby, therefore, I have not been surprised... 
