 Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear...  Annals of Salem - Page 165by Joseph Barlow Felt - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Deron Boyles - Business & Economics - 1998 - 242 pages
...recalling Thomas Smith's observation in 1583 that "whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studiethin the universities, who professeth liberal sciences, and to be short, who can live idly without manual labor, and will bear the port, charge and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called... | |
 | Deron Boyles - Education - 2000 - 242 pages
...meaning behind social mobility/personal advancement by recalling Thomas Smith's observation in 1 583 that "whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth...liberal sciences, and to be short, who can live idly without manual labor, and will bear the port, charge and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
..."As for gentlemen," writes one canny contemporary observer, Sir Thomas Smith, they be made good cheap in England. For whosoever studieth the laws of the...realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, to be short, who can live idly and without manual labor and will bear the... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - England - 1913 - 334 pages
...only make knights and create barons or higher degrees : for as for gentlemen, they be made good cheap in England. For whosoever studieth the laws of the...to be short, who can live idly and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, for... | |
 | Ernest Barker - 1967 - 390 pages
...made by his function in the commonwealth, and by his ability to perform it, rather than by his origin. 'Whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth...to be short, who can live idly and without manual labour and will bear the port charge and countenance of a gentleman, he ... shall be called a gentleman.'... | |
 | 474 pages
...of his time. 1 This, surely, is the sense of Smith's summary (echoed by Harrison or vice versa) — 'whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth...to be short, who can live idly and without manual labour . . .he shall be called master,. . .the title which men give to. . .gentlemen, and shall be... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1889 - 816 pages
...they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who atudieth in the universities, who professeth liberal sciences,...(to be short) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the pnrt, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called Mr. such-a-one,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 854 pages
...the gaming table ; and here, shortly afterwards, is Blacketonc, trying his hand at the portrait : " Whosoever studieth the laws of the realm ; who studieth in the universities ; who professeth the liberal sciences ; and (to be ehort) who can live idly and without manual labor, and well bear... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Paxton Norman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 1020 pages
...; for whoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studiclh in the universities, who professeth the liberal ' sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master,... | |
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