| Arminianism - 1849 - 700 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,...landscape in a hundred, or one building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognise his own fields. The inhabitant of the town would not recognise... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 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,...landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognise his own fields. The inhabitant of the town would not recognise... | |
| John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 358 pages
...Macaulay gives us this rapid sketch of what labour has done for landed property in England : — ' Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process,...landscape in a hundred, or one building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognise his own fields : the inhabitant of the town would not recognise... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 464 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,...landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognise his own fields. The inhabitant of the town would not recognise... | |
| 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...landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognize his own fields. The inhabitant of the town would not recognize... | |
| John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 356 pages
...rapid sketch of what labour has done for landed property in England : — ' Could the England of 1 685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes,...landscape in a hundred, or one building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognise his own fields : the inhabitant of the town 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 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... | |
| 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... | |
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