| Thomas Tusser, William Fordyce Mavor - 1812 - 420 pages
...of Husbandry and Huswifery (so that the observer thereof must be rich) in his own defence. He spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon . Yet I hear no man to charge him with any vicious extravagancy, or visible carelessuess, imputing... | |
| Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 358 pages
...sold, he lost; and, when a renter, impoverished himself, and never enriched his landlord. He spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon. I match him with Thomas Churchyard, they being marked alike in their poetical parts, living in the... | |
| Maria Baldwin - 1839 - 364 pages
...sold, he lost; and, when a renter, impoverished himself, and never enriched his landlord. He spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon. I match him with Thomas Churchyard, they being marked alike in their poetical parts, living in the... | |
| Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 624 pages
...Husbandry and Housewifery" (so that the observer thereof must be rich) in his own defence. He spread his bread with all sorts of butter; yet none would stick thereon. Yet I hear no man to charge him with any vicious extravagancy, or visible carelessness, imputing his... | |
| 1844 - 574 pages
...to have failed in almost all his undertakings. Old Fuller quaintly observes of Tusser, " He spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon." " Yet I hear no man to charge him with any vicious extravagancy, or visible carelessness, imputing... | |
| William Raynbird, Hugh Raynbird - 1849 - 342 pages
...Husbandry and Housewifery, (so that the observer thereof must be rich,) in his own defence. He spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon. Yet I hear no man to charge him with any vicious extravagancy or visible carelessness, imputing his... | |
| 1879 - 566 pages
...thrift to others was ever most unthrifty himself ; as " worthy " old Fuller says of him, " He spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon." The entry in the parish register is to be found in Milbourn's valuable little Hiitory of the Church of... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1865 - 346 pages
...aright, Hath gain to his comfort, and cattle in plight." Fuller, in his " Worthies," says Tusser " spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon." In short, though the poet wrote well on farm-practice, he certainly was not a good exemplar of farm-successes.... | |
| THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND - 1882 - 954 pages
...in his book of husbandry (so that the observer thereof must be rich) in his own defence. He spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon, none being; better at theory, or worse at the practice of Husbandry." Lord Molesworth, in his ' Considerations... | |
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1884 - 352 pages
...' Hath gain to his comfort, and cattle in plight." Fuller, in his " Worthies," says Tusser " spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon." In short, though the poet wrote well on farm-practice, he certainly was not a good exemplar of farm-successes.... | |
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