It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen 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... New Englander and Yale Review - Página 455editado por - 1850Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 578 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 they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns... | |
| 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 they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our 20 towns... | |
| Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 páginas
...regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when 243 noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which...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... | |
| Needham (Mass.) - 1913 - 324 páginas
...topic with the following 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 páginas
...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 were desitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers... | |
| Daniel Jones - 1914 - 112 páginas
...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...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 cur towns... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - 832 páginas
...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 were desitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers... | |
| Walton Hale Hamilton - 1916 - 914 páginas
...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... | |
| University of Calcutta - 1916 - 802 páginas
...noblemen destitute of comforts, the want of which be intolerable to a modem footman . when farmer» 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... | |
| Malcolm Churchill Rorty - 1922 - 152 páginas
...we may trust the British historian*, writing in the year 1848, when he describes the days of 1685 as "times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the...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... | |
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