 | John Dover Wilson - England - 1913 - 334 pages
...than three years travel abroad spent in Italy. . . . And besides good precepts in books, in all kinds of tongues, this court also never lacked many fair...good and ill, than twenty precepts written in books. . . . Present examples of this present time, I list not to touch, yet there is one example for all... | |
 | William Harrison Woodward - 1924 - 364 pages
...the Court than it is, seeing that it is translated into English by a worthy gentleman (Sir Th. Hoby) who was many ways well furnished with learning, and very expert in knowledge of divers tongues" (p. 119). But although a book of too grave and lofty import for the vulgar, Protestant society as represented... | |
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I wis, than three years' travel abroad spent in Italy. And I marvel this book is no more read in the court than it is, seeing it is so well translated into English by a worthy gentleman, Sir Thomas Hoby, who was many ways well furnished with learning... 
