 | David Hume - 1849
...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...of dogs and cats, and every thing that is nasty." t Holingshed, who lived in Queen Elizabeth's reign, gives a very curious account of the plain, or rather... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 408 páginas
...bad 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...collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, and everything that is nasty." Greek scholar and lexicographer,) to the court of Francis I., assuring... | |
 | David Hume - 1854
...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...excrements of dogs and cats, and every thing that is nasty.15 Holinshed, who lived in queen Elizabeth's reign, gives a very curious account of the plain,... | |
 | Charles Selby - 1854
...consequently, honses were only abont a third of onr present price. Erasmus ascribes the frequent plagues in England to the nastiness and dirt, and slovenly...commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which be unmolested an ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments of meat and fish, bones, and everything... | |
 | David Hume - 1854
...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 habits among the people. u The floors," says he, " are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lies unmolested an... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1856
...Erasmus complains of the sluttishness of his times, — " Beneath the rushes, strewed on the floor, lay unmolested an ancient collection of beer, grease,...fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and everything nasty." "A hall, a hall " was the summons for the rake and broom to clear a space for the... | |
 | DAVID HUME - 1856
...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...of dogs and cats, and, every thing that is nasty." f Holingshed, who lived in Queen Elizabeth's reign, gives a very curious account of the plain, or rather... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1856 - 503 páginas
...and 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." The elder Scaliger, another scholar who came to England, abuses the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1856 - 503 páginas
...and 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." The elder Scaliger, another scholar who came to England, abuses the... | |
 | 1857
...Erasmus complains of the sluttishness of his times, — " Beneath the rushes, strewed on the floor, lay unmolested an ancient collection of beer, grease,...fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and everything nasty." "A hall, a hall " was the summons for the rake and broom to clear a space for 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. 
