 Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand.  The Sonning parish magazine1869Full view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...Our concluding extracts shall be taken from this chapter. ENGLAND IN 1633. Could the England of 1085 be by some magical process set before our eyes, we...building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognize his own fields. The inhabitant of the town would not recognize his own street. Everything... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 884 pages
...which the history of the old world furnishes no parallel has land si.™ taken place in our country. Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should not know CHAP. one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognise... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...of the Old World furnishes no parallel, has laken place in our country. Could the England of 1 685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a hundred, pr one building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognize his own fields. The inhabitant... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pages
...— to which the history of the old world furnishes no parallel — has taken place in our country. Could the England of 1685, be, by some magical process,...before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in one hundred, or one building in ten thousand." — ilncaulay's History ч/' l, Vol. i., p. 280. TRAINING... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...change to which the history of the old world furnishes no parallel has taken place in our country. Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, w« should not know one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand. The country gentleman... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1852 - 546 pages
...change to which the history of the old world furnishes no parallel has taken place in our country. Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, wa should not know one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand. The country gentleman... | |
 | House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Juvenile delinquency - 1855 - 176 pages
...century. The poorest artizan now enjoys luxuries, which a queen could not then command. Macaulay says : " Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process,...landscape in a hundred, or one building in ten thousand. Many thousands of square miles which are now rich corn land and meadow, intersected by green hedge... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1857 - 570 pages
...the 12th and 15th. Mr. Macaulay is ouly going so far back as the 17th century when he says, that " Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process,...town would not recognise his own street. Everything hus been changed, but the great features of Nature, and a few massive and * Simon de Albo Monasterio,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1858 - 480 pages
...of the old world furnishes no parallel Kns'udrince has taken place in our country. Could •; 1M5' the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set...street. Everything has been changed, but the great features~oFnature, and a few massive and durable works of human art We might find out Snowdon and Windermere,... | |
 | Science - 1861 - 374 pages
...of England at the time when the sceptre passed away from Charles the Second to the tyrant James. " Could the England of 1685 be by some magical process...landscape in a hundred, or one building in ten thousand. Everything has been changed but the great features of nature, and a few massive and durable works of... | |
| |
