...backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...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...

...present and two hundred years ago summed up what he had to say in these words : " It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns." Particularly in America, even in these recent times...

...we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It 15 is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...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...

...Rather let me close with this passage from his History: " It is now the fashion to place the golden age in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...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...

...faith and praise, are, if we may trust Macaulay, the follies of the sentimentalist. In those ages " 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...

...backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved to the higher class of gentry, when men...

...backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved to the higher class of gentry, when men...

...backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...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...

...we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. 10 It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in 15 a modern workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher...

...workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved to the higher class of gentry, when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns...