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- More's Utopia
More's Utopia
Author:
Thomas More
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epct ins moste eittlltnte matestte, landapfje landob1mson iutssfictlj continuaunte of ftealtlj, fottfj andaglg increase of ber. tut, anll ftonourt. JPON a tyme, when tidynges came too the citie of Corinthe that kyng Philippe father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comming thether- warde with an armie royall to lay siege to the 5 citie: The Corinthians being forth with stryken with greate feare, beganne busilie, and earnestly to looke aboute them, and to falle to worke of all handes. Some to skowre and trymme up harneis, some to carry stones, some to amende and buylde hygher the walles, some to rampiere and fortyfie 10 the bulwarkes, and fortresses, some one thynge, and some another for the defendinge, and strengthenynge of the citie. The whiche busie labour, and toyle of theires when Diogenes the phylosopher sawe, having no profitable busines whereupon to sette himself on worke (neither any man 15 required his labour, and helpe as expedient for the commen wealth in that necessitie) immediatly girded about him his phylosophicall cloke, and began to rolle, and tumble up and downe hether and thether upon the hille syde, that lieth adjoyninge to the citie, his great barrel or tunne, chapter{Section 4wherein he dwelled: for other dwellynge place wold he have none. This seing one of his frendes, and not a litell musynge therat, came to hym: And I praye the Diogenes (quod he) whie doest thou thus, or what meanest thou hereby? Forsothe I am tumblyng my tubbe to (quod he) 3 bycause it where no reason that I only should be ydell, where so many be working. In semblable maner, right honorable sir, though I be, as...
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ISBN-13:
9780217319157
ISBN-10:
0217319157
Publication Date:
8/11/2009
Pages:
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