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History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to ... - Página 309
por John Lothrop Motley - 1861
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Essays and Reviews

Henry H. Lancaster - 1876 - 512 páginas
...great ear-filling noises, such as cannon-firing, drum-beating, and bell-ringing; so that it is very common for a number of them, when they have got a...ring the bells for an hour together for the sake of amusement." — Vol. i. pp. 307-9. On the other hand, the Spaniards were esteemed throughout the world...
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Aungervyle society reprints [ed. by E.M. Goldsmid].

Aungervyle society - 1881 - 360 páginas
...their heads, to go up into some belfreyand ring the bells for hours together for the sake of exercise. If they see a Foreigner, very well made or particularly handsome, they will say, " It is a pity he is not an Englishman." Illustrious ^families of (Snjglanfr. THOMAS HOWARD. — Duke...
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History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to ...

John Lothrop Motley - 1900 - 500 páginas
...great ear-filling noises, such as cannon-firing, drum-beating, and bell-ringing ; so that it is very common for a number of them, when they have got a...well made or particularly handsome, they will say, ' 'T is pity he is not an Englishman.' " 1 It is also somewhat amusing, at the present day, to find...
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History of the United Netherlands : from the death of William the Silent to ...

John Lothrop Motley - 1900 - 488 páginas
...great ear-filling noises, such as cannon-firing, drum-beating, and bell-ringing ; so that it is very common for a number of them, when they have got a...well made or particularly handsome, they will say, ' 'T is pity he is not an Englishman.' " 1 It is also somewhat amusing, at the present day, to find...
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Selections from "The Rise of the Dutch Republic" and "History of the United ...

John Lothrop Motley - 1902 - 236 páginas
...great ear-filling noises, such as cannon-firing, drum-beating, and bellringing; so that it is very common for a number of them, when they have got a...they will say ' 'tis pity he is not an Englishman.' " It is also somewhat amusing, at the present day, to find a German elaborately explaining to his countrymen...
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In Shakespere's England

Mrs. F. S. Boas - 1903 - 378 páginas
...great noises that fill the ear, such as the firing of cannon, drums, and the ringing of bells. ... If they see a foreigner very well made, or particularly handsome, they will say, '// is a pity he is not an Englishman,1 " The irony of the last touch is delightful. Travelling from...
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The Antiquary, Volumen45

Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1909 - 500 páginas
...such as the firing of cannon, drums, and the ringing of bells." Then follows an inimitable touch : " If they see a foreigner very well made or particularly handsome, they will say, // «• a pity he is not an Englishman." With this parting shaft Hentzner may take his leave of us;...
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The Holy Roman Empire in German Literature

Edwin Hermann Zeydel - 1918 - 348 páginas
...their heads to go up into some belfry and ring the bells for hours together for the sake of exercise. If they see a foreigner very well made, or particularly handsome, they will say, 'It is a pity he is not an Englishman.'" From the foregoing it is evident that certain dominant qualities...
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England and the Englishman in German Literature of the Eighteenth Century

John Alexander Kelly - 1921 - 180 páginas
...their heads to go up into some belfry and ring the bells for hours together for the sake of exercise. If they see a foreigner very well made, or particularly handsome, they will say, 'It is a pity he is not an Englishman.'" From the foregoing it is evident that certain dominant qualities...
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The American Mercury, Volumen8

1926 - 614 páginas
...their heads to go up into some belfry and ring the bells for hours together for the sake of exercise. If they see a foreigner very well made, or particularly handsome, they will say, "It is a pity he is not an Englishтал."* It is interesting to note in such international pleasantries...
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