"Sitten" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whether it was latine or english it skilled not, for hee could not reade a word on it, then desiring them to spare him alone a while, they shoulde perceiue what hee woulde doe for them. Their heartes encouraged with some good hope, kept all his wordes secret to themselues: and not long had they sitten absent out of the roome, but he called them in againe and seeming as though he had been a scholler in deed, sayd he found by his figure that a broker in such a place had their goods lost, and in such a place of the house they should finde it, bidding ...
— The Third And Last Part Of Conny-Catching. (1592) - With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking • R. G.
... would contradict itself, and therefore could not exist as a system of nature; hence that maxim cannot possibly exist as a universal law of nature, and consequently would be wholly inconsistent with the supreme principle of all duty. [Footnote: On suicide cf. further Metaphysik der Sitten, p. 274.] ...
— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various
... in Freuden assen, Da konnt's nicht lnger lassen 845 Der Vater, ihn zu fragen Nach hfischem Betragen, Wie er's bei Hof gelernt jetzund. "Mein Sohn, die Sitten tu mir kund, So bin ich auch dazu bereit, 850 Zu sagen, wie vor langer Zeit In meinen jungen Jahren Die Leut' ich sah gebaren." "Ach Vater, das erzhle jetzt, Ich geb' auch Antwort dir zuletzt 855 Auf alle deine ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... a feller was sitten On a marvel stone, and our Lord came by, And He said to him, "What's the matter with thee, my man?" And he said, "Got the toothache, Marster," And he said, "Follow me and thee shall have no ...
— Current Superstitions - Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk • Various
... thou mean by satisfied? She gives me all the sitten [Note 1] porridge. That is not very satisfying, for one can't eat much of it. I break my fast with Moss, ...
— Earl Hubert's Daughter - The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century • Emily Sarah Holt
... product was published, entitled "Launige Reise durch Holland in Yoricks[88] Manier, mit Charakterskizzen und Anekdoten ber die Sitten und Gebruche der Hollnder aus dem Englischen," two volumes, Zittau und Leipzig, 1795. The translation was by Reichel in Zittau.[88] This may possibly be Ireland's "APicturesque Tour through Holland, Brabant and part of France, made ...
— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer
... lord in the land, for as little as ye think o' her, Mr. Saddletree," said Mrs. Howden, somewhat indignant at the contemptuous way in which her gossip was mentioned; "when she and I were twa gilpies, we little thought to hae sitten doun wi' the like o' my auld Davie Howden, or you either, ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... this was done Merlin said, Fair sirs, ye must all arise and come to king Arthur for to do him homage; he will have the better will to maintain you. And so they arose and did their homage. And when they were gone Merlin found in every siege letters of gold that told the knights' names that had sitten therein. But two sieges were void: And so anon came young Gawaine, and asked the king a gift. Ask, said the king, and I shall grant it you. Sir, I ask that ye will make me knight that same day ye shall wed fair Guenever. I will ...
— Song and Legend From the Middle Ages • William D. McClintock and Porter Lander McClintock
... not sitten but a while, Certain, without leas-ing, There came two messengers out of the north, With letters to our King. And when they came before the King, They kneeled down upon their knee, And said: "Lord, your officers greet you well Of Carlisle ...
— A Bundle of Ballads • Various
... not beleved? and how shall they beleve in him of whom they have not hearde? and howe shall they heare withoute a preacher? and howe shall they preache excepte they be sente? Then it is necessary for the salvation of those poore people which have sitten so longe in darkenes and in the shadowe of deathe, that preachers should be sent unto them. But by whome shoulde these preachers be sente? By them no doubte which have taken upon them the protection and defence of the Christian faithe. (M212) Nowe the Kinges and Queenes of England ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt |
