 | Walter Wilson - Authors, English - 1830 - 556 pages
...every where remains ; Who join'd with Norman-French compound the breed, From whence your True-Born Englishmen proceed. And lest by length of time it...where we are, Mixes us daily with exceeding care." Descending to the reign of Elizabeth, De Foe notices the mixture of the breed by the influx of foreigners,... | |
 | Walter Wilson - Authors, English - 1830 - 562 pages
...offspring every where remains; Who join'd with Norman-French compound the breed, From whence your True-Born Englishmen proceed. And lest by length of time it...where we are, Mixes us daily with exceeding care." Descending to the reign of Elizabeth, De Foe notices the mixture of the breed by the influx of foreigners,... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 566 pages
...may contemn Schomberg and Portland, new-made noblemen." To repress the pride of ancestry, he adds, " Tis well that virtue gives nobility, Else God knows...where we had our gentry; Since scarce one family is led alive, Which does not from some Foreigner derive. Of sixty thousand English gentlemen, Whose Names... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - English - 1836 - 48 pages
...everywhere remains ; Who, join'd with Norman -French, compound the breed. From whence your True-born Englishmen proceed. And, lest by length of time, it be pretended, The climate may this modern breed have mended, Wise Providence, to keep us where we are, Mixes us daily with exceeding... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers - 1841 - 406 pages
...everywhere remains ; Who, join'd with Norman French, compound the breed From whence your true-born Englishmen proceed. And lest, by length of time, it be pretended, The climate may this modern breed have mended ; Wise Providence, to keep us where we are, Mixes us daily with exceeding... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Greece - 1855 - 474 pages
...everywhere remains ; Who, joined with Norman- French, compound the breed, From whence your True-born Englishmen proceed ; And lest by length of time it...gives nobility. Else God knows where we had our gentry ; out ismitv K ieft alive ones nm iron, somt farmpnBr derive Of til Whose nsmef and arnx in We {£ttHext{!e... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - English fiction - 1855 - 502 pages
...everywhere remains; 'Who, join'd with Norman French, compound the breed From whence your true-born Englishmen proceed. AND lest, by length of time, it be pretended, The climate may this modern breed have mended; Wise Providence, to keep us where we are, Mixes us daily with exceeding... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 488 pages
...everywhere remains ; Who, join'd with Norman French, compound the breed From whence your true-born Englishmen proceed. •, AND lest, by length of time, it be pretended, The climate may this modern breed have mended; Wise Providence, to keep us where we are, Mixes us daily with exceeding... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 pages
...everywhere remains ; Who, joined with Norman-French, compound the breed, From whence your True-born Englishmen proceed ; And lest by length of time it...where we are, Mixes us daily with exceeding care.' Descending to the age of Elizabeth, the satirist notices the further mixture of the breed by the influx... | |
 | John Leaf - 1861 - 500 pages
...his nation Ejg<i -hm»n » To rebuke the vanity of ancestry, he adds — " T» well that Tfrtne ghres nobility, Else God knows where we had our gentry ; Since scarce one family is left afire Which does not from some foreigner derire. Of axtr thousand English gentlemen Wc-iiie same! and... | |
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The climate may this modern breed have mended, Wise Providence, to keep us where we are, Mixes us daily with exceeding care; We have been Europe's sink, the jakes where she Voids all her offal outcast progeny... 
