London and Londoners he felt an aversion which more than once produced important political effects. His wife and daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a stillroom maid of the present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry... Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America - Página 286por John William Draper - 1871 - 325 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1849 - 700 páginas
...daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a still-room maid of the present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry -wine, cured...marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty. (Page 320.) There were, however, other features not to be overlooked in his character. Thus :— Unlettered... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 páginas
...daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a stillroom maid of the present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry wine, cured marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty. From this description it might be supposed that the English esquire of the seventeenth century did... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 páginas
...daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a stillroom maid of the present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry wine, cured marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty. From this description it might be supposed that the English esquire of the seventeenth century did... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 páginas
...daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a still-room maid of the present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry wine, cured marigolds , and made the crust for the venison pasty. From this description it might be supposed that the English esquire of the seventeenth century did... | |
| 1849 - 638 páginas
...daughter were in tastes and acquirements below л housekeeper or a slillroom maid of the present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry wine, cured marigolds, and made the crust fur the venison pasty. THE SQUIRE Ш THE CITY. When the lord of a Lincolnshire or Shropshire manor... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 páginas
...daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a stillroom maid of the present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry wine, cured marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty. VOL, v.—L patriarchal justice, which, in spite of innumerable blunders and of occasional acts of... | |
| 1886 - 574 páginas
...were in tastes and accomplishments below a housekeeper or a still-room maid of the present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry wine, cured marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty." Macaulay's reading was so prodigious, and, indeed, he himself says that "his notion of the country... | |
| John Algernon Clarke - 1852 - 284 páginas
...daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or still-room maid of the present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry wine, cured marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty." The clergy also tilled the ground. " Not one living in fifty enabled the incumbent to bring L up a... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 1052 páginas
...were ¡n tastet and acquirements below a housekeeper or a Btill-room maid of ibe present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry wine, cured marigolds, and made the crust for th« venison pasty. From this description it might be supposed that the English esquire of the seventeenth... | |
| John William Draper - 1863 - 680 páginas
...were con- Private iite in sidered to be in prosperous circumstances. One half of the e» oflSciety. families in England could hardly do that. Children...Hospitality was displayed in immoderate eating, and drinking of beer, the guest not being considered as having done justice to the occasion unless he had... | |
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