 | 1850 - 676 pages
...of our towns — and when men died faster in our towns than they now do on the coast of Guinea ; we too shall in our turn be outstripped, and in our turn...with fifteen shillings a week — that the carpenter of Greenwich may receive ten shillings a day — that laboring men may be as little used to dine without... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...of our towns — and when men died faster in our towns than they now do on the coast of Guinea ; we too shall in our turn be outstripped, and in our turn...with fifteen shillings a week — that the carpenter of Greenwich may receive ten shillings a day — that laboring men may be as little used to dine without... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pages
...forward to a golden age in the near future — a golden age of more abundant beef and richer pudding. " It may well be, in the twentieth century, that the...at Greenwich may receive ten shillings a day ; that laboring men may be as little used to dine without meat as they now are to eat rye-bread.' ' Why let... | |
 | 640 pages
...pestilential lanes of our towns or on the coast of Guinea. We too, in our turn, will be envied. It may be in the twentieth century, that the peasant of Dorsetshire may think himself miserably paid with 1(8. a week; that the carpenter of Greenwich may receive lu.v. a day; the labouring men may be as little... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 560 pages
...towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns than they now die on the coast of Guiana. We too shall, in our turn, be outstripped, and in our...at Greenwich may receive ten shillings a day ; that laboring men may be as little used to dine without meat as they now are to eat rye bread ; that sanitary... | |
 | 1849 - 556 pages
...towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns than they now die on the coast of Guiana. We too shall, in our turn, be outstripped, and, in our...at Greenwich may receive ten shillings a day ; that laboring men may be as little used to dine without meat as they now are to eat rye bread ; that sanitary... | |
 | 1849 - 542 pages
...towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns than they now die on the coast of Guiana. We too shall, in our turn, be outstripped, and, in our...at Greenwich may receive ten shillings a day ; that laboring men may be as little used to dine without meat as they now are to eat rye bread ; that sanitary... | |
 | 1849 - 364 pages
...chase the mirage backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. We too shall in our turn be outstripped and in our turn be envied. It may be in the twentieth century the mode to assert that the increase of wealth and the progress of science... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 470 pages
...lanes of our towns—and when men died faster in our towns than they now do on the Coast of Guinea; we too shall in our turn be outstripped, and in our turn...think himself miserably paid with fifteen shillings a week—that the carpenter of Greenwich may receive ten shillings a day—that labouring men may be... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 490 pages
...workhouse — when men died faster in the purest country air than they now do on the coast of Guinea ; we too shall in our turn be outstripped, and in our turn...with fifteen shillings a week — that the carpenter of Greenwich may receive ten shillings a day' — that labouring men may be as little used to dine... | |
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Greenwich may receive ten shillings a day ; that labouring men may be as little used to dine without meat as they now are to eat rye bread; that sanitary police and medical discoveries may have added several more years to the average length of human life... 
