 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...  German prose writing - Seite 79von Franz K W. Lange - 1882 - 219 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1849 - 604 Seiten
...the long progress from poverty and barbarism to the highest ' degrees 01 opulence and civilisation. But, if we resolutely ' chase the mirage backward,...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... | |
 | 1887 - 890 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 480 Seiten
...of the long progress from poverty and barbarism to the highest degrees of opulence and civilisation. But, if we resolutely chase the mirage backward, we...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... | |
 | 1849 - 364 Seiten
...were toiling through sand. A similar illusion seems to haunt nations, through every stage of their long progress from poverty and barbarism to the highest...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... | |
 | 1849 - 600 Seiten
...the long progress from poverty and barbarism to the highest ' degrees of opulence and 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 the fashion ' to place the golden age of England... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 Seiten
...of the long progress from poverty and barbarism to the highest degrees of opulence and civilisation. But, if we resolutely chase the mirage backward, we shall find it redede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 714 Seiten
...of the long progress from poverty and barbarism to the highest degrees of opulence and civilisation. But, if we resolutely chase the mirage backward, we...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 Seiten
...nations through every stage of the long progress from poverty and barbarism, to the highest degrees of opulence and civilization ; but if we resolutely...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... | |
 | John William Donaldson - 1853 - 244 Seiten
...highest degrees of opulence and civilization.23 But, if we resolutely chase the mirage backward,24 we shall find it recede before us into the regions...fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen26 were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman,28... | |
 | Charles Selby - 1854 - 338 Seiten
...nation. Mr. Macanlay and Mr. Charles Dickens have exploded the long-cherished romance of " The good old Times," "when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modem footman, when ' fanners and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise... | |
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