 | Mary Roberts - Gloucestershire (England) - 1831 - 388 pages
...art, knowing no more what to do with their wool, than the sheep that wear it, as to any artificial and curious drapery, their best clothes then being no better than friezes, such was their * Strutt's Dresses. coarseness for want of skill in their making. But soon after followed a great alteration,... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 656 pages
...the English were ignorant of that art, as knowing no more what to do with their wool than the sheep that weare it, as to any artificial curious drapery...was their coarseness for want of skill in making. But soon after followed a great alteration." Edward III. having married the daughter of the earl of... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1837 - 590 pages
...as knowing no more what to do with their wool than the sheep that wear it, as to any artificial and curious drapery; their best clothes then being no better than friezes, such their coarseness for want of skill in their making. But soon after followed a great alteration, and... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1842 - 596 pages
...as knowing no more what to do with their wool than the sheep that wear it, as to any artificial and curious drapery ; their best clothes then being no better than friezes, such their coarseness for want of skill in theii making. But soon after followed a great alteration, and... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Great Britain - 1845 - 536 pages
...as knowing no more what to do with their wool than the sheep that wear it, as to any artificial and curious drapery, their best clothes then being no better than friezes, such their coarseness for want of skill in their making. But soon after followed a great alteration, and... | |
 | George Pryce - 1854 - 384 pages
...knowing no more what to do with their wooll than the sheep that weare it, as to any artificial and curious drapery, their best clothes then being no better than friezes, such their coarseness for want of skill in their making. But soon after followed a great alteration, and... | |
 | Abraham Holroyd - Bradford (England) - 1873 - 202 pages
...as knowing no more what to do" with their wool than the sheep that wear it, as to any artificial and curious drapery ; their best clothes then being no better than friezes, such their coarseness for want of skill in their making. But soon after followed a great alteration, and... | |
 | James Christopher Scholes - Bolton (England) - 1892 - 592 pages
...their wool than the sheep that wear it, as to any artificial curious drapery ; their best clothes then no better than friezes, such was their coarseness for want of skill in making." But soon afterwards followed a great alteration. It was about this period, in the Fourteenth Century,... | |
 | Ephraim Lipson - 1965 - 294 pages
...as knowing no more what to do with their wool than the sheep that wear it, as to any artificial and curious drapery; their best clothes then being no better than friezes, such their coarseness for want of skill in the making. . . . The intercourse now being great betwixt the... | |
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that weare it, as to any artificial curious drapery ; their best clothes then being no better than friezes ; such was their coarseness for want of skill in making. 