| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1872 - 510 páginas
...old. That which is new is the intelligence which discerns, and the humanity which remedies, them. " It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England...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... | |
| 1871 - 484 páginas
...wholly vague and dateless, in some period when, aa Macaulay has said, in a passage familiar to all, "noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which...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... | |
| Josiah Strong - 1885 - 268 páginas
..."noblemen were destitute of comforts, the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, and farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse,1' and especially because few knights had " libraries as good as may now perpetually be found... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 1026 páginas
...chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquily. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were desitvte of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers... | |
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