 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
 | Criticism - 1880 - 884 pages
...it impossible that men like these should return." "Could the England of 1685," writes Lord Macaulay, "be, by some magical process, set before our eyes,...building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognize his own field. The inhabitant of the town would not recognize his own street Everything has... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1881 - 536 pages
...Unterschiedes stets bewusst sind. Uebertragen bezeichnet in die Sphäre bei zahlverhältnissen, zb : Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process,...landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand. Mac. H. I, 277. Sodann eine thätigkeit bei to engage, employ (auch on), occupy (on) , deal , join... | |
 | Eden Burroughs Foster - Congregationalists - 1883 - 484 pages
...liberty, science has flourished, and has been applied to practical purposes on a scale never before known. Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process,...in a hundred, or one building in ten thousand. The inhabitant of a town would not recognize his own street. Everything has been changed but the great... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - Factory system - 1886 - 472 pages
...men, and in the imperceptible tendencies of the time. " Could the England of 1685," says Macaulay,1 " be, by some magical process, set before our eyes,...inhabitant of the town would not recognise his own street." With the exception of the " great features of nature " (mountains, rivers, and lakes), and " a few... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1886 - 818 pages
...parallel has taken place chan^ i" in our country. Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical EÍ£Umd° process, set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in since I68sa hundred, or one building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognise his... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1888 - 456 pages
..." Ancient London," will he found some instructive and suggestive remarks on this subject. 1 COTJLD the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set...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... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - History - 1893 - 460 pages
...article on '' Ancient London," will be found some instructive and suggestive remarks on this subject. 1 COULD the England of 1685 be, by some magical process,...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... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, J. V. Denney - 1893 - 312 pages
...change to which the history of the old world furnishes no parallel has taken place in our country. (13) Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process,...landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand. [Another page of details, similar to those in the last sentence, follows.] — Macaulay: History of... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1893 - 286 pages
...old world furnishes no parallel has taken place in our country. (13) Could the England of 1685 be, In some magical process, set before our eyes, we should...landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand. [Another page of details, similar to those in the last sentence, follows.] — Macaulay : Histnry of... | |
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