| 1849 - 604 páginas
...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... | |
| 1850 - 676 páginas
...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 — and when men died faster in our towns than they... | |
| 640 páginas
...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,... | |
| 1849 - 542 páginas
...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...and, in our turn, be envied. It may well be, in the twentieth century, that the peasant of Dorsetshire may think himself miserably paid with fifteen shillings... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 páginas
...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...and in our turn be envied. It may well be, in the twentieth century, that the peasant of Dorsetshire may think himself miserably paid with fifteen shillings... | |
| 1849 - 556 páginas
...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...and, in our turn, be envied. It may well be, in the twentieth century, that the peasant of Dorsetshire may think himself miserably paid with fifteen shillings... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 páginas
...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, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns than they now die on the coast of Guiana.... | |
| 1849 - 364 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 páginas
...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...and in our turn be envied. It may well be, in the twentieth century, that the peasant of Dorsetshire may think himself miserably paid with fifteen shillings... | |
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