liuing

• “Guzman in 1530 “The last which was taken, and which fought most couragiously, was a man in the habite of a woman, which confessed that from a childe he had gotten his liuing by that filthinesse, for which I caused him to be burned.””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “They know nothing concerning eternall life, and euerlasting damnation, and yet they thinke, that after death they shall liue in another world, that they shall multiply their cattell, that they shal eate and drinke and doe other things which liuing men performe here vpon earth.”

  The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini

• “Then they all goe vnto the beasts which are slaine (suffering the liuing beasts to returne into the wood that they may haue more sport with them another time) and euery man enjoyeth that beast as his owne, wherein he findeth his arrow sticking.”

  The Journal of Friar Odoric

• “Whiche al haue their habite, and maner of liuing by them selfe: acordinge to the rule that echeone priuately prescribed to them selues.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “But prouidinge for their wiues, their children, and householdes, thei occupie their time in husbondrie, marchaundise, huntinge, or some other meane to get the penie, and mainteyne their liuing, euen as the temporall men doe.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “This is the maner of liuing propre vnto them that lye within the bosome of the sayde Arabique sea.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “Before the receiuing of Christian faith the Islanders liuing according to the lawe of nature did not much differ from our lawe”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “How iustly may this barbarous, and rude Russe condemne the daintinesse and nicenesse of our Captaines, who liuing in a soile and aire much more temperate, yet commonly vse furred boots, and clokes?”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “In mine opinion there be no such people vnder the sunne for their hardnesse of liuing.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “These people were wild and sauage, and had not in them the loue of God nor of their neighbors, because all euil commeth from the North, yet there were among them certeine Christians liuing in secret.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

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