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
| Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1914 - 730 pages
...prepositional phrase, the article is seldom absent, unless the phrase is felt as part of the proper name. i. Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process,...landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand. MAC., Hist., II. Ch. Ill, 276. The difference in salubrity between the London of the nineteenth century... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1915 - 832 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,...gentleman would not recognise his own fields. The State of England in 1685 219 inhabitant of the town would not recognise his own street. Everything... | |
| George Macaulay Trevelyan - English essays - 1919 - 272 pages
...scepticism as to the famous sentence at the beginning of the third chapter of Macaulay's History : " Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process,...landscape in a hundred, or one building in ten thousand." It is doubtful even now, and I suspect that it was a manifest exaggeration when it was written two... | |
| William Henry Ricketts Curtler - Agriculture - 1920 - 352 pages
...much more resembled the England of the Middle Ages. ' Could the England of 1685 ', says Macaulay, ' be by some magical process set before our eyes we...building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognize his own fields . . . many thousands of square miles which are now rich corn land and meadows,... | |
| Gustav Wendt - English language - 1923 - 188 pages
...written, they might perhaps have spared their ingenuity. Zahlverhaltnis : Could the England of 1658 be ... set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand. Personlich: In person, JH Newman was slight, thin and rather tall. — Falsehood is worse in Kings... | |
| John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. I> . I own would not recognise his own street. Everything has been changed but the great f tatures of nature,... | |
| George Macaulay Trevelyan - Health & Fitness - 1928 - 70 pages
...considerable scepticism as to the famous sentence at the beginning of the third chapter of Macaulay's History: "Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process,...landscape in a hundred, or one building in ten thousand." It is doubtful even now, and I suspect that it was a manifest exaggeration when it was written two... | |
| George Macaulay Trevelyan - Walking - 1928 - 72 pages
...sentence at the beginning of the third chapter of Macaulay's History: "Could the England of 1685 De» by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should...landscape in a hundred, or one building in ten thousand." It is doubtful even now, and I suspect that it was a manifest exaggeration when it was written two... | |
| Ron Johnston, Michael Williams, British Academy - Science - 2003 - 722 pages
...famous was Thomas Macaulay's comment in his History of England (1848, 1, 281): 'Could the landscape of England of 1685, be, by some magical process, set...landscape in a hundred, or one building in ten thousand, . . . Everything has changed'. Therefore it had to be re-created, as he did in the third chapter of... | |
| 1851 - 344 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." — Macaulay's History of England, vol. i., p. 280.... | |
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