 | 1889 - 854 páginas
...opulence and civilisation. But, if we resolutely chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity....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 - 108 páginas
...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 - 464 páginas
...opulence and civilization. But if we resolutely chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity....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 - 1903 - 506 páginas
...opulence and civilisation. But, if we resolutely ( chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us \ into the 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 - 184 páginas
...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...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 lanes... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1905 - 176 páginas
...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 - 1887 - 926 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1909 - 402 páginas
...opulence and civilization. But, if we resolutely chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity....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 - 390 páginas
...opulence and civilization. But, if we resolutely chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity....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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 570 páginas
...opulence and civilisation. But, if we resolutely chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity....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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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... 
