 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
 | Henry Drinker Biddle - 1895 - 108 pages
...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 were destitute of comforts,...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,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 464 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... | |
 | Andrew Webster Archibald - 1901 - 430 pages
...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 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." Particularly... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1905 - 176 pages
...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1887 - 926 pages
...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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 570 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... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1909 - 390 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 to the higher class of gentry, when men... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1909 - 402 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 to the higher class of gentry, when men... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 196 pages
...into the regions of fabulous antiquity. 10 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 15 a modern workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 pages
...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...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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