 | William Roper - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...schoolmaster's name was Nicholas Holt. '•> Sir Thomas thus speaks of the Cardinal, " The Bp. (Morton of Ely) was a man of great natural wit, very well learned...in behaviour, lacking no wise ways to win favour. K. Heury VII. made him Archbp. of Canterbury and Chancellor of England, wherennto the Pope joined the... | |
 | 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...his coming home to Brecknock, having there in his custody, by the commandment of king Richard, doctor Morton, bishop of Ely, who, as ye before heard, was...a man of great natural wit, very well learned, and honorable in behaviour, lacking no wise ways to win favor. He had been fast upon the part of king Henry,... | |
 | 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...coming greatness of More, who thus described his venerable predecessor in the chancellor's chair : " He was a man of great natural wit, very well learned, and honourable in behaviour."* " He was venerable for his wisdom and virtues, and for the high character he bore. His looks begot... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...Canterbury. According to Sir Thomas More, who in his youth had been intimately associated with the latter, the bishop was " a man of great natural wit, very well learned, and of a winning behaviour."* He had formerly been chaplain to Henry VI., and had sat at the counciltable... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 222
...the tuneful * Sir Thomas More has left us this character of Morton, who was his early patron : ' ' The bishop was a man of great natural wit, very well...favour. He had been fast upon the part of King Henry [the Sixth], while that part was in wealth ; and nevertheless left it not nor forsook it in woe ; but... | |
 | Thomas More - 1976 - عدد الصفحات: 204
...coming home to Brecknock,8 having there in his custody, by the commandment of King Richard, Doctor Morton, Bishop of Ely, who, as ye before heard, was...at the Tower, waxed with him familiar, whose wisdom abused9 his pride to his own deliverance and the duke's destruction. The bishop1 was a man of great... | |
 | Thomas More - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...coming home to Brecknock,1 having there in his custody, by the commandment of King Richard, Doctor Morton, bishop of Ely (who, as ye before heard, was taken in the council at the Tower),2 waxed with him familiar. Whose wisdom abused3 his pride to his own deliverance and the duke's... | |
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The bishop was a man of great natural wit, very well learned, and honourable in behaviour, lacking no wise ways to win favour. He had been fast upon... 