...that the nineteenth century is the golden age of England, rather than the seventeenth, because then, "noblemen were destitute of comforts, the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, and farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern...

...within the ordinary purseSERVICE. limit until the eighteenth centnry. Says Macanlay: "It is the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...intolerable to a modern footman; when farmers and store-keepers breakfasted upon loaves, the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse."...

...were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modem footman, when fanners and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modem workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher class...

...the globe. Just after the Restoration it was a city of pestilence. " It was a time," Macauiay says, " when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns; and when they (lied faster in the lanes of our towns...

...of faith aud 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...

...ages "noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the...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...

...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 be intolerable to a modern footman... when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns,...

...that epoch, in the metropolis, and no doubt throughout the kingdom. Macaulay describes it as a time " 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...

...sixteen shillings. A mechanic exacted a shilling a day." lie also says "it is the fashion now [1848] to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...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,...