 | 1849 - 604 pages
...were 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...than they now die in the most pestilential ' lanes in our towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of ' our towns than they now die on the coast of... | |
 | 1887 - 610 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shop-keepers breakfasted on loaves, the very sight...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... | |
 | Theology - 640 pages
...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 air than...now die In the most 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,... | |
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...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 workhouse." But if it be folly to chase backward through time a vanishing mirage, we may confidently look forward... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 884 pages
...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...than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of onr towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns than they now die on the coast of Guiana.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...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 a riot in a modern workhouse—when men died faster in the purest country air than they now do in the most pestilential... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1852 - 490 pages
...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...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 be envied. It... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1852 - 506 pages
...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...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 be envied. It... | |
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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... 
