 I., while King of Scotland, was forced to beg of the Earl of Mar the loan of a pair of silk stockings to appear in before the English ambassador, enforcing his request with the cogent appeal, " For ye would not, sure, that your king should appear as a...  The Child's Annual - Page 1341834 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 568 pages
...stockings to appear in •before the English ambassador, enforcing his request with the cogent appeal, " For ye would not, sure, that your king should appear as a scrub before strangers-"-'"1 Nay, long before this period, even prior to the time that silk was valued at its weight... | |
 | William Bingley - Commercial products - 1821 - 298 pages
...stockings to appear in before the English ambassador, enforcing his request with this cogent appeal, " For ye would not, sure, that your King should appear as a scrub before strangers." China may be said to be the country of silk; indeed it furnishes large quantities of raw silk to all... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1822 - 618 pages
...stockings to appear in before the English ambassador, enforcing his request with the cogent appeal, " For ye would not, sure, that your king should appear as a scrub before strangers — " Nay, long before this period, even prior to the time that silk was valued at its weight of gold... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1832 - 960 pages
...the loan of a pair. This was the Earl of Mar, to whom the king said, in an impressive manner, " You would not, sure, that your king should appear as a scrub before strangers." Antwerp, which was long the great mart for silk, and the produce of almost all nations, was taken by... | |
 | Fanny Ward - Children's questions and answers - 1828 - 310 pages
...borrowed of the Earl of Mar a pair of silk stockings, to receive the English ambassador in, observing, " For ye would not, sure that your king should appear as a scrub before strangers." Q. How did he like them ? A. So well, that it is said he danced them into holes. Q. What is velvet... | |
 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...stockings to appear in before the English ambassador, enforcing his request with the cogent appeal, " For ye would not, sure, that your king should appear as a scrub before strangers." THE CLOTHES MOTH. THE larva of this little Moth is well known from the damage it commits in woollen... | |
 | William Bingley - 1831 - 298 pages
...stockings to appear in before the English ambassador, enforcing his request with this cogent appeal, " For ye would not, sure, that your King should appear as a scrub before strangers." China may be said to be the country of silk ; indeed it furnishes large quantities of raw silk to all... | |
 | 1831 - 796 pages
...stockings, to appear in before the English ambassador, enforcing his request with the cogent appeal, ' For ye would not, sure, that your king should appear as a scrub before strangers'1 — a circumstance which probably led him to promote the cultivation of silk in England.... | |
 | Natural history - 1831 - 420 pages
...stockings, to appear in before the English ambassador, enforcing his request with the cogent appeal, ' For ye would not, sure, that your king should appear as a scrub before strangers' — a circumstance which probably led him to ,promote the cultivation of silk in England. In America,... | |
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