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" Take deal, or rather birch, for my coffin, good Master Svensson, and let it be fifty rix-dollars." " Sixty rix-dollars, your honour." "Fifty rix-dollars, Master Svensson; I won't give more ¡ and you may regulate yourself accordingly. Fifty rix-dollars,... "
The Neighbours - Page 90
by Fredrika Bremer - 1844 - 127 pages
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Reminiscences of Charles Butler, Esq, Volume 1

Charles Butler - Autobiography - 1822 - 706 pages
...interesting chapter in the work. English Lollards, under the celebrated John Ball, their leader, " When Adam delved and Eve span, " Where was then the gentleman ?" And, " why Adam had not obtained a patent of " nobility for all his descendants ?" — This evidently is...
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Reminiscences of Charles Butler ...

Charles Butler - Law - 1824 - 476 pages
...and which suggested the questions asked by the English Lollards, under the celebrated John Ball, " When Adam delved and Eve span, " Where was then the gentleman?" And, " why Adam had not obtained a patent of " nobility for all his descendants?" — This evidently ia...
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The neighbours, tr. by M. Howitt, Volume 2

Fredrika Bremer - 1842 - 352 pages
...in a coffin of oak or of deal. ' Let death but strike, we 're all alike.' It is true I am of an old noble family, and so was also my husband, the late...but what then, Master Svensson,— When Adam delved »nd Eve span, Where was then the gentleman ? And where is he when the body lies in the grave'( Take...
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Harper's Novels, Volume 3

Harper & Brothers - 1843 - 254 pages
...lie in a coffin of oak or of deal. ' Let death but strike, we're all alike.' It is true, I am of :.m old and noble family, and so was also my husband,...gentleman ?' And where is he when the body lies in the gravel Take deal, or rather birch, for my coffin, good Master Svensson, and let it be fifty rix-dollars."...
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The novels of Frederika Bremer. 11 vols. [in 12 pt.].

Fredrika Bremer - 1844 - 584 pages
...ancient noble descent, and such was my husband also, the late General Mansfelt. But what then, Mr. Svensson ? When Adam delved, and Eve span. Where was...where is he, when the body lies in the grave? — Take pine, or birch-wood to my coffin, dear Svensson, and let me have it for fifty rix-dollars." " Sixty...
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The Neighbours: A Story of Every-day Life

Fredrika Bremer - Sweden - 1844 - 1066 pages
...noble family, and so was also my husband, the late General Mansfeld; but what then, Master Svensson 7 ' When Adam delved and Eve span, Where was then the...!' And where is he when the body lies in the grave 1 Take deal, or rather birch, for my coffin, good Master Svensson, and let it be fifty rix-dol" Sixty...
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The man of the people, Volume 3; Volume 610

William Howitt - 1860 - 366 pages
...little credit for contrivance. When we work, off goes the ring, and on goes a pair of leather gloves. ' When Adam delved and Eve span, Where was then the gentleman ? ' And where was then the gentlewoman ? Of course, just where she was before. But, in truth, Mr. Stanton, I would...
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Pictures of Old England

Reinhold Pauli - England - 1861 - 522 pages
...association can be traced between the sentiments that inspired John Ball's levelling distich — " When Adam delved and Eve span, Where was then the gentleman ?" and the earnest activity which Wiclif displayed in his teaching, and which always embraced the good of...
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The rook's garden, essays and sketches, by Cuthbert Bede

Edward Bradley - 1865 - 314 pages
...quote that old saying (derived. it may be, from Holbein's fourth subject in The Dance of Death), — ' When Adam delved and Eve span, Where was then the gentleman ?' And, indeed, ' the grand old name of Gentleman' has been so ' Defamed by every charlatan, And soil'd with...
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Catholic World, Volume 16

1873 - 876 pages
...the earth, and Eve with a lamb whose fleece she was to spin. And we have our old English rhyme : " When Adam delved and Eve span, Where was then the gentleman . " And so faithfully was the tradition handed down that the distaff has always been regarded as a symbol of...
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