 | 1886 - Liczba stron: 572
...Meats not within the ordinary purseSERVICE. limit until the eighteenth centnry. Says Macanlay: "It is the fashion to place the golden age of England in...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."... | |
 | 1887 - Liczba stron: 620
...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... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1888 - Liczba stron: 544
...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 workhouse." But if it be folly to chase backward through time a vanishing mirage, we may confidently... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1888 - Liczba stron: 546
...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... | |
 | 1889 - Liczba stron: 854
...barbarism to the highest degrees of opulence and civilisation. But, if we resolutely chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us into the...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,... | |
 | Henry Drinker Biddle - 1895 - Liczba stron: 108
...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,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - Liczba stron: 464
...barbarism to the highest degrees of opulence and civilization. But if we resolutely chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us into the...loaves the very sight of 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... | |
 | Andrew Webster Archibald - 1901 - Liczba stron: 430
...contrasts between the present and two hundred years ago summed up what he had to say in these words : " It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England...loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - Liczba stron: 506
...barbarism to the highest j degrees of opulence and civilisation. But, if we resolutely ( chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us \ into...regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion J to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1905 - Liczba stron: 184
...the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It 15 is now the fashion to place the golden age of England...loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, 20 when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential... | |
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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... 
