“The” History of England from the Accession of James II, Nide 1J.B. Lippincott, 1875 |
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... shillings in the pound . The cry of agricultural distress rose from every shire in the kingdom ; and for that distress the government was , as usual , held accountable . The gentry , compelled to retrench their expenses for a period ...
... shillings in the pound . The cry of agricultural distress rose from every shire in the kingdom ; and for that distress the government was , as usual , held accountable . The gentry , compelled to retrench their expenses for a period ...
Sivu 230
... shillings , in the Blues two shillings and sixpence , in the Dragoons eighteenpence , in the Foot Guards tenpence , and in the line eightpence . The discipline was lax , and indeed could not be ctherwise . The common law 230 HISTORY OF ...
... shillings , in the Blues two shillings and sixpence , in the Dragoons eighteenpence , in the Foot Guards tenpence , and in the line eightpence . The discipline was lax , and indeed could not be ctherwise . The common law 230 HISTORY OF ...
Sivu 245
... shillings each . Foreign breeds were greatly preferred . Spanish jennets were regarded as the finest chargers , and were imported for purposes of pageantry and war . The coaches of the aristoc- racy were drawn by gray Flemish mares ...
... shillings each . Foreign breeds were greatly preferred . Spanish jennets were regarded as the finest chargers , and were imported for purposes of pageantry and war . The coaches of the aristoc- racy were drawn by gray Flemish mares ...
Sivu 325
... shillings a week , therefore , were , according to Petty's calculation , fair agricul tural wages . * That this calculation was not remote from the truth , we have abundant proof . About the beginning of the year 1685 , the justices of ...
... shillings a week , therefore , were , according to Petty's calculation , fair agricul tural wages . * That this calculation was not remote from the truth , we have abundant proof . About the beginning of the year 1685 , the justices of ...
Sivu 326
... shillings a week in winter , and six in summer . * In 1661 the justices at Chelmsford had fixed the wages of the Essex laborer , who was not boarded , at six shillings in winter and seven in summer . This seems to have been the highest ...
... shillings a week in winter , and six in summer . * In 1661 the justices at Chelmsford had fixed the wages of the Essex laborer , who was not boarded , at six shillings in winter and seven in summer . This seems to have been the highest ...
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Sivu 263 - Street, was sacred to polite letters. There the talk was about poetical justice and the unities of place and time. There was a faction for Perrault and the moderns, a faction for Boileau and the ancients. One group debated whether Paradise Lost ought not to have been in rhyme. To another an envious poetaster demonstrated
Sivu 361 - had scarce begun his address to the jury, when the Chief Justice broke forth : " Pollexfen, I know you well. I will set a mark on you. You are the patron of the faction. This is an old rogue, a schismatical knave, a hypocritical villian. He hates the Liturgy. He would have nothing but long-winded
Sivu 118 - of the Pilgrim's Progress languished in a dungeon for the crime of proclaiming the gospel to the poor. It is an unquestionable and a most instructive fact, that the years during which the political power of the Anglican hierarchy was in the zenith were precisely the years during which national virtue was at the lowest point.
Sivu 229 - four or five sons of peers were priests, and held valuable preferment: but these rare exceptions did not take away the reproach which lay on the body. The clergy were regarded as, on the whole, a plebeian class. And, indeed, for one who made the figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial
Sivu 257 - And in luxurious cities, when the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage, and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the
Sivu 263 - coffee-rooms reeked with tobacco like a guard room; and strangers sometimes expressed their surprise that so many people should leave their own firesides to sit in the midst of eternal fog and stench. Nowhere was the smoking more constant than at Will's. That celebrated house, situated between Covent Garden and
Sivu 247 - and laburnums, extended from the great centre of wealth and civilization almost to the boundaries of Middlesex and far into the heart of Kent and Surrey. In the east, no part of the immense line of warehouses and artificial lakes which now spreads from the Tower to
Sivu 257 - act was negligently executed. Few of those who were summoned left their homes ; and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.t It ought to be noticed that, in the last year of the reign of Charles the Second, began a great change
Sivu 310 - it may then be the mode to assert that the increase of wealth and the progress of science have benefited the few at the expense of the many, and to talk of the reign of Queen Victoria as the time when England was truly merry England, when all