 | 1908 - 804 pàgines
...invention. "In counterfeiting the Egyptian rogues." says he of the vagabonds, who then infested England, "they have devised a language among themselves which they name Canting, but others Pedlar's French, a speech compact thirty years since of English, and a great number of odd words of... | |
 | 1910 - 432 pàgines
...unto above 10,000 persons, as I have heard reported. Moreover, in counterfeiting the Egyptian rogues, they have devised a language among themselves, which they name " Canting," but others, " pedler's French," a speech compact thirty years since, of English and a great number of odd words... | |
 | Jean Froissart, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison - 1910 - 446 pàgines
...unto above 10,000 persons, as I have heard reported. Moreover, in counterfeiting the Egyptian rogues, they have devised a language among themselves, which they name " Canting," but others, "pedler's French," a speech compact thirty years since, of English and a great number of odd words... | |
 | Jean Froissart, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison - 1910 - 424 pàgines
...unto above 10,000 persons, as I have heard reported. Moreover, in counterfeiting the Egyptian rogues, they have devised a language among themselves, which they name " Canting," but others, " pedler's French," a speech compact thirty years since, of English and a great number of odd words... | |
 | 1910 - 434 pàgines
...unto above 10,000 persons, as I have heard reported. Moreover, in counterfeiting the Egyptian rogues, they have devised a language among themselves, which they name " Canting," but others, " pedler's French," a speech compact thirty years since, of English and a great number of odd words... | |
 | Jean Froissart, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison - 1910 - 420 pàgines
...unto above 10,000 persons, as I have heard reported. Moreover, in counterfeiting the Egyptian rogues, they have devised a language among themselves, which they name " Canting," but others, " pedler's French," a speech compact thirty years since, of English and a great number of odd words... | |
 | 1910 - 400 pàgines
...unto above 10,000 persons, as I have heard reported. Moreover, in counterfeiting the Egyptian rogues, they have devised a language among themselves, which they name "Canting," but others, "pedler's French," a speech compact thirty years since, of English and a great number of odd words... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1917 - 408 pàgines
...supposed, of one sex and another, to amount unto above 10,000 persons, as I have heard reported. Moreover, they have devised a language among themselves, which they name "Canting," but others, "peddler's French," a speech compact of English and a great number of odd words of their own devising,... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1917 - 414 pàgines
...supposed, of one sex and another, to amount unto above 10,000 persons, as I have heard reported. Moreover, they have devised a language among themselves, which they name "Canting," but others, "peddler's French," a speech compact of English and a great number of odd words of their own devising,... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - 1920 - 524 pàgines
...Harman's ' List of Rogues' Words,' in 1566, and in 1587 Harrison says of the beggars and gypsies that they have devised a language among themselves, which...they name canting, but others ' Pedlars' Frenche.'* Of all etymologies ascribed to personal names, one of the most curious is that of the Danse Macabre,... | |
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list of Rogues' Words in the year 1566; and Harrison about the same time,* in speaking of beggars and Gipsies, says, " they have devised a language among themselves which they name Canting, but others Pedlars' Frenche. 
