Robert Grosseteste Quotes

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• In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.
• Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without,…
• Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking,…
• Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that…
• Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will…
• And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of…
• Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of…
• The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure,…
• If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes…
• And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the…
• This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close,…
• It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.
• And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.
• And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most…
• Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.
• Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are…
• Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.
• And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all,…
• And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.
• And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit…

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