...backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher class of gentry, when men...

...past, will be disposed to take a morose or a desponding view of the present. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...footman ; when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on bones, the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse ; when to have a clean shirt...

...How wisely Macaulay censured shallow reference to old times when he wrote : ' It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher class of gentry, when men...

...history is familiar with Macaulay's famous description of the England of two hundred years ago : " times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the...which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when rnen died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our...

...of a merchant prince, like Clayton, could not have purchased. He speaks of the year 1865 as a time when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our cities, or on the coast of Guinea. Thomas Gale in his " Office...

...exceptionally high mortality, even for that epoch, in the metropolis. Macaulay describes it as a time " when men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns...

...been banished by police." In a continuation of the same passage he speaks of the year 1685 as a time when " men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns...

...backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse; when to have a clean shirt once a week was a privilege reserved for the higher class of gentry; when men...

...Eestoration, the dwellings in England were so bad that Macaulay describes them in these words— " When men died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns...

..."noblemen were destitute of comforts, the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, and farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the...which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse,'' and especially because few knights had " libraries as good as may now perpetually be found in a servants'...