 | Baron Louis Benas - 1881 - 238 páginas
...frequent plagues in England to the nastiness, dirt, and slovenly habits of the people. " The floors," said he, " are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under...collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrement of dogs and cats, and everything that is nasty." We have, however, improved all this off... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1881 - 200 páginas
...the Eighth, gives no pleasant description of the floors of the poorer houses. He says : " The floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes ; under...ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, and everything that is nasty." To these uncleanly habits were owing the terrible plagues that fell... | |
 | International health exhibition, 1884 - 1882 - 564 páginas
...the reign of Henry VIII, we learn from a letter written by Erasmus to Dr. Francis, ' that the floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which...fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and everything that is nasty'. Of course this description refers to the ordinary living room which was... | |
 | ERNEST HART - 1882 - 558 páginas
...the reign of Henry VIII, we learn from a letter written by Erasmus to Dr. Francis, 'that the floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which...fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and everything that is nasty'. Of course this description refers to the ordinary living room which was... | |
 | David Hume - 1882 - 494 páginas
...* yet labor and provis ons, and consequently houses, were only about a third of the iresent price. Erasmus ascribes the frequent plagues in England to...the nastiness, and dirt, and slovenly habits among ;he people. " The floors," says he, " are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lies unmolested... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 páginas
...frequent plagues in England to the nastiness, dirt, and slovenly habits of the people. " The floors," said he, " are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under...collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrement of dogs and cats, and everything that is nasty." We have, however, improved all this off... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1893 - 616 páginas
...of the house», to the tilth i ness of the streets, and to the sluttishness within doors. The floon, says he, are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes;...fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and everything that и nasty." I shall give a sketch of the domestic life of a nobleman in the reign of... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1893 - 622 páginas
...houses, to the tilthiness of the streets, and to the sluttishness within doors. The Moon, says be, are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes; under which...fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and everything that ia nasty." I shall give a sketch of me domestic life of a nobleman in the reign of... | |
 | 1904 - 294 páginas
...bad exposition of the houses, to the filthyness of the streets, and to the sluttishness within doors. 'The floors,' says he, ' are commonly of clay, strewed...collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrement of dogs and cats, and everything that is nasty.' "* If such were the conditions of the upper... | |
 | Sidney Heath - 1911 - 372 páginas
...which he states was due to the filth of the streets and houses. Of the latter we read that " the floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which...beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements and urine of dogs and cats, and everything that is nasty." That even such a terrible scourge as the... | |
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are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lies unmolested an ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and every thing that is nasty. 
