 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...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 5301887Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1858 - 480 pages
...into the regions of fabulous antiquity. ' It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...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... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England, in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts,...raise a riot in a modern workhouse ; when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns ; and... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 394 pages
...antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitnte of comforts the want of which would be intolerable...raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towus, and... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 300 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England, in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts,...raise a riot in a modern workhouse ; when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns ; and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 668 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 510 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...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... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1867 - 728 pages
...great lord like Ormond, or of a merchant prince like Clayton, could not have purchased."* For then, noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman ; farmers and shopkeeper» breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1872 - 492 pages
...discerns, and the humanity which remedies, them. " It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts,...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... | |
 | Edward Jeboult - 1873 - 394 pages
...us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...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... | |
 | John Lord - 1874 - 562 pages
...labors or alleviates the miseries of mankind. " It is now the fashion to place tho golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...raise a riot in a modern workhouse , when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns ; and... | |
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