...Lad exposition of the houses, to the filthiness of the streets, and to the sluttishness within doors. The floors, says he, are commonly of clay, strewed...excrements of dogs and cats, and every thing that is nasty. And NOW, certainly, we are the cleanest nation in Europe, and the word COMFORTABLE expresses so peculiar...

...exposition of the houses, to the tiltliincis of the streets, and to the sluttishness within doors. The floors, (says he,) are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lies IIHmolested, an ancient collection of grease, fragments, bones, &c." — Dr. Jortin in his second vol....

...fillhiness of the streets, and to the slutlishness within doors. The floors, says he, are commonly of clav, strewed with rushes ; under which lies, unmolested,...excrements of dogs and cats, and every thing that is nasty. I shall give a sketch of the domestic life of a nobleman in tho reign of Charles the First, ' from...

...bad exposition of the houses, to the filth mees of the streets, and to the siutlishnejs within doors. The floors, says he, are commonly of clay, strewed...under which lies, unmolested, an ancient collection of b¿er, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs ami cats, and every thinir 'hat is nasty....

...he says — "their floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lie unmolested, a collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and of every thing that is nauseous." It is said that the presence-chamber of his daughter Q,ueen Elizabeth...

...English, he says, " Their floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lie unmolested, a collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and everything that is nauseous." Erasmus omitted to mention the prevailing intemperance of the times,...

...English, he says : " Their floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lie unmolested, a collection of beer, 'grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and everything that is nauseous." Erasmus omitted to mention the prevailing intemperance of the times,...

...and he says, ' their floors are commonly of clay, strowed with rushes, under which lie, unmolested, a collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and of every thing that is nauseous.' The elder Scaliger, another scholar who came to England, abuses the...

...bad exposition of the houses, to thefiltbinessof the streets, and to the slutlishness within doors. The floors, says he, are commonly of clay, strewed...rushes ; under which lies, unmolested, an ancient cojlcc'-iou ofbeer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and every thing...

...consequently houses, were only about a third of the present price. Erasmus ascribes the frequent plagues in England to the nastiness and dirt and slovenly...under which lies unmolested an ancient collection « HollinKshed, p. 732. Hevlin, p. 71. f 4 and 5 Phil, and Mar. cap. 2. B Nicholson's Historical Library....