 | Charles Knight - 1831 - 232 páginas
...Persian delicacy crept in among us, altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. In those days, the courage of the owner was a sufficient defence to keep the house in safety ; but now, the assurance of the timber, double doors, locks, and bolts, must defend the man... | |
 | 1834 - 536 páginas
...and yet see the change: for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men : but now our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are...altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. In them the courage of the owner was a sufficient defence to keep the house in safety : but now the assurance... | |
 | 1835 - 272 páginas
...and yet see the change: for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men : but now our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are...altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. In them the courage of the owner was a sufficient defence to keep the house in safety : but now the assurance... | |
 | John Holland - 1835 - 516 páginas
...were buylded of willowe then we had oken men, but nowe that our houses are come to be made of oke, our men are not only become willow, but a great many...altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration." About fifty years afterwards, the apprehensions of Harrison relative to the decay of wood fuel, appear... | |
 | John Holland - 1835 - 514 páginas
...were buylded of willowe then we had oken men, but nowe that our houses are come to be made of oke, our men are not only become willow, but a great many...altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration." About fifty years afterwards, the apprehensions of Harrison relative to the decay of wood fuel, appear... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 páginas
...is now regarded, ' for when our houses (says he) were built of willow, then we had oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not onlyliecome willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration.' But though they... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1841 - 484 páginas
...houses, but oak ; for," says he, " when our houses were built of willow, then we had oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our...not only become willow, but a great many altogether straw." Such was life in England, in the days of the Reformation ; and what was it, think we, in earlier... | |
 | 1843 - 582 páginas
...applaud, for he remarks in another place — " when our houses were of willow, then had we ashen men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willowe, but a great manie altogether of strawe, which is a sore alteration." The question of the rotation... | |
 | 564 páginas
...Persian delicacy, crept in among us, altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. In those days, the courage of the owner was a sufficient defence to keep the houses in safety ; but now, the assurance of the timber, double doors, locks, and bolts, must defend... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1847 - 680 páginas
...regarded : and yet, see the change : for when our houses were built of willow, then had we oaken men; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our...many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. 11. Penmal 35. "•' In former times the courage of thcowner wasn sufficient deme™8t fcnce to keep... | |
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... palaces, navigation, &c. but now sallow, &c. are rejected, and nothing but oak any where regarded ; and yet see the change ; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our... 
