An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell: Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland & Ireland, Volume 1J. MacLehose, 1907 - Europe |
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Page 61 - ... in his hand, for three quarters ; but in the fourth quarter that of Christ goes back, and that of Death strikes the hour with a bone in his hand, and then the chimes sound. On the top of the clock is an image of a cock, which twice in the day crows aloud, and claps his wings.
Page 34 - I lay in my bed, I dreamed that a shadow passing by told me that my father was dead, at which, awaking all in a sweat, and affected with this dream, I rose, and wrote the day and hour, and all circumstances thereof, in a...
Page 423 - And lest by spending upon the stock my patrimony should be wasted, I moreover gave out to five friends, one hundred pound, with condition that they should have it if I died, or after three years should repay it with one hundred and fifty pound again if I returned ; which I hold a disadvantageous adventure to the giver of the money.
Page 360 - Consul eram, hie peril, missus in exilium. Et quid mors rapuit ? Probitas me vexit ad auras ; Et nunc fama viget maxima, vivit opus. Boethius wrote many philosophical works. His chief performance, " The Consolations of Philosophy," is well known in the learned world, and to which the afflicted have often applied.
Page 421 - ... wants, and yet more miserable by their gentry and plentiful education, must needs rush into all vices ; for all wise men confess, that nothing is more contrary to goodness than poverty. My brother being partner with other gentlemen in this fortune, thought this putting out of money to be an honest means of gaining, at least the charges of his journey, and the rather, because it had not then been heard in England, that any man had gone this long journey by land, nor any like it, (excepting only...
Page 155 - Lumbards carry shirts of male, and being armed as if they were in camp, are apt to revenge upon shameful advantages. But commonly there is pleasant discourse, and the proverb saith that the boat shall be drowned when it carries neither monk, nor student, nor curtisan.
Page 421 - And howsoever now being newly returned home, I thought the going into more remote parts would be of little use to me, yet I had an itching desire to see Jerusalem, the fountaine of Religion, and Constantinople, of old the seate of Christian Emperours, and now the seate of the Turkish Ottoman.
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Page 421 - Being of this mind when I returned into England, it happened that my brother Henry was then beginning that voyage, having to that purpose put out some four hundred pounds, to be repaid twelve hundred pounds upon his return from those two cities, and to lose it if he died in the journey.
Page 5 - Monument erected: taaj<sterhee died in the yeere 1350. and the stone covering him is compassed with a grate, least it should bee broken and carried away peece-meale by Passengers, which they say hath once already been done by the Germanes.