 | 1849 - 604 pagine
...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 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 pagine
...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 in the purest country air faster than they now do in the most pestilential lanes of our towns,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pagine
...which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shop-keepers 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 lanes of our towns... | |
 | 1850 - 676 pagine
...which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shop-keepers 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 lanes of our towns... | |
 | 640 pagine
...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,... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pagine
...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 Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pagine
...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 die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pagine
...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 die in the most pestilential lanes of onr towns,... | |
 | 1849 - 556 pagine
...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 die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns,... | |
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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... 
