...much the same manner : for, 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...

...In those days [temp. Henry VI.) it was thought sufficient for Noblemen's sons to wind their horn and carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of mean people. See C'axton's Life in BiographiaBritannica." . " Bolton Village and Castell is 4 miles...

...in an old bas-relief, as embarking with a bird on his fist and a dog under his arm. In those days, it was thought sufficient for noblemen's sons to wind...study and learning to the children of meaner people. Indeed, this diversion was in such high esteem among the great all over Europe, that Frederic, one...

...birds upon his hand, and, in old paintings, a Falcon was the criterion of nobility. In those days, it was thought sufficient for noblemen's sons to wind...study and learning to the children of meaner people. The object for which these birds were trained was the pursuit of the hare, the partridge, the quail,...

...birds upon his hand, and, in old paintings, a Falcon was the criterion of nobility. In those days, it was thought sufficient for noblemen's sons to wind...study and learning to the children of meaner people. . ; The object for which these birds were trained was the pursuit of the hare, the partridge, the quail,...

...secretary of Henry V III., ' it is enough for the sons of the nobility to wind their horn, and cany their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of meaner people,' We have young patricians of the present day who act up to the spirit of this diction ; while we have...

...same manner; for in 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...

...enough (said a great man in the reign of Henry VIII.) for the sons of noblemen to wind their horn, and carry their hawk fair, and leave study and learning to the children of meaner people." G excluded from any participation in the government, and have no temptations to those exertions which...

...were adicted to hawking or 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...

...period. " It is 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...