| 1849 - 700 pągines
...are. It was only at great houses, or on great occasions, that forcign drink was placed on the board. The ladies of the house, whose business it had commonly...dishes had been devoured, and left the gentlemen to thcir ale and tobacco. The coarse jollity of the afternoon was often prolonged till the revellers were... | |
| Churchill Babington - 1849 - 182 pągines
...and lower classes, not only all that beer now is, but all that wine, tea, and ardent spirits now ore. It was only at great houses, or on great occasions,...coarse jollity of the afternoon was often prolonged tin the revellers were laid under the table. He was a magistrate, and, as such, administered gratuitously... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 850 pągines
...are. It was only at great houses, or on great occasions, that foreign drink was placed on the board. The ladies of the house, whose business it had commonly...prolonged till the revellers were laid under the table. It was very seldom that the country gentleman caught glimpses of the great world ; and what he saw... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pągines
...are. It was only at great houses, or on great occasions, that foreign drink was placed on the board. The ladies of the house, whose business it had commonly...prolonged till the revellers were laid under the table. It was very seldom that the country gentleman caught glimpses of the great world ; and what he saw... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pągines
...are. It was only at great houses, or on great occasions, that foreign drink was placed on the board. The ladies of the house, whose business it had commonly...prolonged till the revellers were laid under the table. It was very seldom that the country gentleman caught glimpses of the great world ; and what he saw... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 pągines
...house, whose business it had commonly heen to cook the repast, retired as soon as the dishes had heen devoured, and left the gentlemen to their ale and...prolonged till the revellers were laid under the table." At a more remote date, the social practices of the English country gentlemen were still worse. William... | |
| 432 pągines
...are. It was only at great houses, or on great occasions, that foreign drink was placed on the board. The ladies of the house, whose business it had commonly...to cook the repast, retired as soon as the dishes hod been devoured, and left the gentlemen to their ale and tobacco. The coarse jollity of the afternoon... | |
| 1849 - 638 pągines
...are. It was only at great houses, or on great occasions, that foreign drink was placed on the board. The ladies of the house, whose business it had commonly been to couk the repast, retired as soon as the dishes liad been devoured, and left the genilemen to their... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pągines
...are. It was only at great houses, or on great occasions, that foreign drink was placed on the board. The ladies of the house, whose business it had commonly...prolonged till the revellers were laid under the table. From this description it might be supposed that the English esquire of the seventeenth century did... | |
| 1853 - 888 pągines
...to intoxicate large assemblies daily with claret or canary, strong beer was the ordinary beverage. The coarse jollity of the afternoon was often prolonged till the revellers were laid under the table." Mr. Richards often bottled off wine, port, mįlaga, and claret; but gives us no intimation of intoxication... | |
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