 | Benjamin Stillingfleet - 1811 - 522 lehte
...of Spanish sheep, now so eagerly sought after, was originally derived from England. " Our sheep are very excellent, sith for sweetness of flesh they pass...preferred before those of Milesia and other places, * These remarks are principally taken from the Description of Britain, ch. xvii. and the Description... | |
 | William Blackwood - 1841 - 646 lehte
...man shall have more than two farms.— (25th Hen. VIII. c. 13.) Harrison, who died in 1593, describes our sheep as very excellent " sith for sweetness of...in Britain, he would never have gone to Colchis to have looked for any there."—(Des. of Eng. pre, to HoUingshed, 220.) The German agriculturist Heresbach,... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1842 - 1364 lehte
...enacU, that no man shall have above two farms. (25 H. 8. c. 13.) Harrison, who died in 1593, describes our sheep as very excellent, " sith for sweetness...never have gone to Colchis to look for any there." (Description of England, prefixed to Ifolinshed, 220.) Heresbach, who was a contemporary, gives such... | |
 | Shuttleworth family - 1858 - 440 lehte
...(3/ari., who gives remedies for the diseases of sheep.) An Elizabethan writer says — Our sheep are very excellent, sith for sweetness of flesh they pass...to be had, in Britain, he would never have gone to Colehia to look for any there In time past the use of this commodity consisted for the most part in... | |
 | 1858 - 430 lehte
...(Mark., who gives remedies for. the diseases of sheep.) An Elizabethan writer says — Our sheep are very excellent, sith for sweetness of flesh they pass...had known the value of them that are bred, and to he had, in Britain, be would never have gone to Colehia to look for any there In time past the use... | |
 | 1858 - 424 lehte
...(Mark., who gives remedies for the diseases of sheep.) An Elizabethan writer says — Our sheep are very excellent, sith for sweetness of flesh they pass all other. And so much arc our wools to he preferred before those of Milesia and other places, that if Jason had known the... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1869 - 1296 lehte
...enacts, that no man shall have above two farms. (25 H. 8, c. 13.) Harrison, who died in 1593, describes our sheep as very excellent, "sith for sweetness of...never have gone to Colchis to look for any there." (Description of England, prefixed or any th to Hulhi shed, 220.) Heresbach, -*ho was a contemporary,... | |
 | Francis Nottidge MacNamara - 1895 - 654 lehte
...butchers, tanners, sheepmasters, woodmen, and what not.* ' Our sheep are very excellent,' he writes, ' sith, for sweetness of flesh, they pass all other....them that are bred and to be had in Britain, he would not have gone to Colchis to look for any there.' t Northamptonshire, too, was a great horse and cattle... | |
 | Jean Froissart, William Harrison, Thomas Malory - 1910 - 420 lehte
...Strabo doth remember, lib. 16. But to leave this, let us see what may be said of sheep. Our sheep are very excellent, sith for sweetness of flesh they pass...never have gone to Colchis to look for any there. For, as Dionysius Alexandrinus saith in his De situ Orbis, it may by spinning be made comparable to... | |
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Our sheep are very excellent, sith for sweetness of flesh they pass all other. And so much are our wools to be preferred before those of Milesia and other places that if Jason had known the value of them that are bred and to be had in Britain he would... 