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If we consider taking big risks and make big money a sort of posturing to gain alpha male status, then it logically follows that if we were to regulate the system so that the monke – trader could not lose big without losing big personally, then a lot of traders would end up with less testosterone than Nancy Pelosi, and the contest would be over for them.

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

Hereupon the earle sent a knight, the bishop a clearke, the Abbot a monke vnto Maniches the Emperour of Constantinople, with the letters and gifts of their King.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Second, and after them of John Scogan and John Lydgate, monke of

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

As for myself, I have sometimes read them by the blaze of my cheerful hearth, or among the ruins of some old monastic abbey, [250] till in imagination I beheld the events which they attempt to record, and could almost hear the voice of the "_goode olde monke_" as he relates the deeds of some holy man -- in language so natural and idiomatic are they written.

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

Holbecke, a monke of Ramsie, well séene in the Hebrue toong, and wrote thereof a dictionarie; Iohn Colton, archbishop of Ardmach; Iohn Marrie, so called of a village in Yorkeshire where he was borne, a Carmelite of

Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed

After whom followed _Iohn Lydgate_ the monke of Bury, & that nameles, who wrote the _Satyre_ called Piers Plowman, next him followed _Harding_ the Chronicler, then in king _Henry_ th'eight times

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Malchus was a monke, and sometime vnder Walkhelme bishop of

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus Raphael Holinshed

[512] Turned later into English verse by Lydgate, to be read as a supplementary Tale of Canterbury: "Here begynneth the sege of Thebes, ful lamentably told by Johnn Lidgate monke of Bury, annexynge it to ye tallys of Canterbury," MS. Royal 18 D ii. in the British Museum.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Dommicanus; Thomas Palmer, warden of the Blacke friers within the citie of London; Boston of Burie, a monke of the abbeie of Burie in Suffolke, wrote a catalog of all the writers of the church, and other treatises.

Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed

Moreouer, Hugh Legat borne in Hertfordshire, and a monke of saint

Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed