 | 1887 - 610 pages
...Macaulay, writing thirty years ago, men placed the ' golden age of this country in the days of Charles II., in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when men died in the purest country air faster than they now do in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and... | |
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...opulence and civilisation. But, if we resolutely ' chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us ' into the regions of fabulous antiquity....destitute of comforts, the want of which would be in' tolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers ' breakfasted on loaves the very sight... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...market with a halter about her neck and sold her for 5s. ?" " It is now the fashion" says Macaulay, " to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...died faster in the purest country air than they now do in the most pestilential lanes of our towns — and when men died faster in our towns than they... | |
 | 1850 - 676 pages
...market with a halter about her neck and sold her for 5s. ?" " It is now the fashion" says Macaulay, " to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...died faster in the purest country air than they now do in the most pestilential lanes of our towns — and when men died faster in our towns than they... | |
 | 640 pages
...discontented with their waged. These are among their first endeavours." ENGLAND AS IT WILL BE. IT la now the fashion to place the golden age of England...farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very eight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse ; and when men died faster in the purest country... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pages
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 600 pages
...civilisation. But, if we resolutely ' chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before ua ' into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now...destitute • of comforts, the want of which would be in' tolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers ' breakfasted on loaves the very sight... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 480 pages
...opulence and civilisation. But, if we resolutely chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity....of England in times when noblemen were destitute of com- ;' forts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 714 pages
...opulence and civilisation. But, if we resolutely chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity....comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a CHAP. modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers break- m. fasted on loaves the very sight of which... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 470 pages
...opulence and civilization ; 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 to place the golden age of 58 THE AGE AND ITS ARCHITECTS. England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts, the want... | |
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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... 
