 | Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 590 pages
...passing an evening in merriment, was requested by Christopher Flecamore to write some sentence in hi: Albo (a book of white paper) which for that purpose many of the Germán gentry usually carry about them. Sir Harry consenting to the motion, took an octnsion, from... | |
 | 1856 - 766 pages
...many of the best note for " learning and ingeniousness," he was requested by one Christopher Flecamore to write some sentence in his Albo, a book of white...the German gentry usually carry about them ; " and, consenting to the motion, he took occasion to write a pleasant definition of an Ambassador : — "... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1817 - 822 pages
...that nation) with whom he, passing an evening in merriments, was requested by Christopher Flecamore to write some sentence in his Albo (a book of white paper which the German gentry usually carry about them for that purpose) ; and Sir Henry Wotton, consenting to... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 620 pages
...Hichard Cromwell, was expected from the Massachuset's, but they declined it.'' History, (1765,) i. 206. J Isaac Walton relates, that Sir Henry Wotton, " at...merriment, to write some sentence in his albo ; a hook of white paper, which for that purpose, many of the German gentry usually carry about them ; and... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 336 pages
...that nation), with whom he, passing an evening in merriments, was requested by Christopher Flecamore to write some sentence in his Albo (a book of white paper which the German gentry usually carry about them for that purpose) ; and Sir Henry Wotton, consenting to... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 330 pages
...that nation), with whom he, passing an evening in merriments, was requested by Christopher Flecamore to write some sentence in his Albo (a book of white paper which the German gentry usually carry about them for that purpose); and Sir Henry Wotton, consenting to the... | |
 | American literature - 1833 - 208 pages
...that nation), with whom he, passing an evening in merriments, was requested by Christopher Flecamore to write some sentence in his Albo, (a book of white paper which the German gentry usually carry about them for that purpose) ; and Sir Henry Wotton, consenting to... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 286 pages
...ingeniousness, with whom he passing an evening in merriments, was requested by Christopher Flecamore to write some sentence in his Albo (a book of white...the German gentry usually carry about them), and Sir Heury Wotton consenting to the motion, took an occasion from some accidental discourse of the present... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1891 - 672 pages
...to Venice as the Ambassador of James I., and at Augsburg, being induced to write a sentence in an " Albo (a Book of white Paper, which for that purpose,...many of the German Gentry usually carry about them)," he wrote " a pleasant definition of an Ambassadeur, in these тегу words : ' Legatus est vir bonus... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - Christian biography - 1853 - 766 pages
...of that nation) with whom he passing an evening in merriment, was requested by Christopher Flecamore to write some sentence in his albo : (a book of white...for that purpose many of the German gentry usually 4 carry about them) and sir Henry Wotton consenting to the motion, took an occasion from some 5 Universal... | |
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German gentry usually carry about them for that purpose) ; and Sir Henry Wotton, consenting to the motion, took an occasion, from some accidental discourse of the present company, to write a pleasant definition of an ambassador... 
