 London and Londoners he felt an aversion which more than once produced important political effects. His wife and daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a stillroom maid of the present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry...  Fen sketches - Page 133by John Algernon Clarke - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Arminianism - 1849 - 700 pages
...important political effects. His wife and daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a still-room maid of the present day. They stitched...marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty. (Page 320.) There were, however, other features not to be overlooked in his character. Thus :— Unlettered... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 560 pages
...important political effects. His wife and daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a stillroom maid of the present day. They stitched and...marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty. From this description it might be supposed that the English esquire of the seventeenth century did... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...important political effects. His wife and daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a stillroom maid of the present day. They stitched and...marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty. From this description it might be supposed that the English esquire of the seventeenth century did... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...effects. His wife und daughter were in tastes and acquirements below л housekeeper or a slillroom maid of the present day. They stitched and spun, brewed...gooseberry wine, cured marigolds, and made the crust fur the venison pasty. THE SQUIRE Ш THE CITY. When the lord of a Lincolnshire or Shropshire manor... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1886 - 574 pages
...the age, says, " His wife and daughter were in tastes and accomplishments below a housekeeper or a still-room maid of the present day. They stitched...marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty." Macaulay's reading was so prodigious, and, indeed, he himself says that "his notion of the country... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...important political effects. His wife and daughter were in tastes and acquirements below a housekeeper or a stillroom maid of the present day. They stitched and...marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty. VOL, v.—L patriarchal justice, which, in spite of innumerable blunders and of occasional acts of... | |
 | Jean Roemer - English language - 1857 - 332 pages
...know how to write at all, and most of them were, in tastes and acquirements, below a housekeeper or a still-room maid of the present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry wine, cured inajigeffis, and made the crust for the venison pasty! ^ '•"'From this description it might be supposed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1861 - 1052 pages
...wife and daughter were ¡n tastet and acquirements below a housekeeper or a Btill-room maid of ibe present day. They stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry wine, cured marigolds, and made the crust for th« venison pasty. From this description it might be supposed that the English esquire of the seventeenth... | |
 | John William Draper - Europe - 1863 - 656 pages
...associate of peddlers and drovers ; knew how to ring a pig or shoe a horse ; his wife and daughters " stitched and spun, brewed gooseberry wine, cured marigolds, and made the crust for the venison pasty." Hospitality was displayed in immoderate eating, and drinking of beer, the guest not being considered... | |
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