| 1887 - 622 páginas
..."noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight...of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse." But if it be folly to chase backward through time a vanishing mirage, we may confidently look forward... | |
| Edward Dowden - 1888 - 544 páginas
..."noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight...of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse." But if it be folly to chase backward through time a vanishing mirage, we may confidently look forward... | |
| Henry Drinker Biddle - 1895 - 108 páginas
...to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves [of barley, oats, and rye], the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse." kora, between Burlington and Bordentown, to which he gave the name of Mount Hope. THE BIDDLE HOUSE,... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 464 páginas
...were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight...which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher class of gentry, when men... | |
| Andrew Webster Archibald - 1901 - 430 páginas
...were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight...die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns." Particularly in America, even in these recent times which are so bewailed, has there been social and... | |
| 1884 - 762 páginas
...in an ordinary season and London in the height of an epidemic of Cholera. That two hundred years ago men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our cities and towns." In the present day there is almost a universal consensus of opinion among the members... | |
| Charles Francis Adams - 1905 - 178 páginas
...were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman; when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight...which would raise a riot in a modern work-house ; when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher class of gentry ; when men... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1905 - 184 páginas
...were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight...of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, 20 when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1887 - 926 páginas
...noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the. very sight...of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse." But if it be folly to chase backward through time a vanishing mirage, we may confidently look forward... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 198 páginas
...workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once [ a week was a privilege reserved for the higher class of gentry, when men died faster in the purest country air than...towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our 20 towns than they now die on the coast of Guiana. We too shall, in our turn, be outstripped, and in... | |
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