 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 - Strana 5301887Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1874 - Počet stránok 752
...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 footm in, and farmers and shop-keepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a... | |
 | 1875 - Počet stránok 448
...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 - 1876 - Počet stránok 506
...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 - 1876 - Počet stránok 508
...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 Whitcombe Greene - 1876 - Počet stránok 340
...footmen use, light, easy, thin. FAIRFAX, Tasso. 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 FORMAL — FREE. 127 a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the highest classes... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1877 - Počet stránok 738
...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... | |
 | 1877 - Počet stránok 610
...morose or a desponding view of the present. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts,...footman ; when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on bones, the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse ; when to have a clean shirt... | |
 | Sir R. Arthur Arnold - 1878 - Počet stránok 380
...shallow reference to old times when he wrote : ' 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... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1879 - Počet stránok 266
...history is familiar with Macaulay's famous description of the England of two hundred years ago : " times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the...which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when rnen died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our... | |
 | Franz K W. Lange - 1882 - Počet stránok 262
...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... | |
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