 Many thousands of square miles which are now rich corn land and meadow, intersected by green hedgerows, and dotted with villages and pleasant country seats, would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should see straggling...  The Living Age - Pągina 3011849Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1849 - 700 pągines
...appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should see straggling huu built of wood and covered with thatch, where we now...equipages, the interior of the shops and dwellings. Such a change in the state of a nation seems to be at least as well entitled to the notice of a historian... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pągines
...country seats, would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should see straggling huts built of wood and covered with thatch,...equipages, the interior of the shops and dwellings. Such a change in the state of a nation seems to be at least as well entitled to the notice of a historian... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 464 pągines
...country seats, would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should see straggling huts built of wood and covered with thatch...equipages, the interior of the shops and dwellings. Such a change in the state of a nation seems to he at least as well entitled to the notice of a historian... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pągines
...country seats, would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should see straggling huts built of wood and covered with thatch...equipages, the interior of the shops and dwellings. Such a change in the state of a nation seems to be at least as well entitled to the notice of a historian... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1849 - 356 pągines
...country-seats, would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or feus abandoned to wild ducks. Wo should see straggling huts built of wood and covered with thatch,...equipages, the interior of the shops and dwellings. Such a change in the state of a nation seems to be at least as well entitled to the notice of a historian... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 550 pągines
...appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should see straggling huta built of wood and covered with thatch where we now...equipages, the interior of the shops and dwellings. Such a change in the state of a nation seems to be at least as well entitled to the notice of an historian... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pągines
...country seats, would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should see straggling huts, built of wood and covered with thatch, where we now see manufacturing towns and sea ports, renowned to the farthest ends of the world. The capital itself would shrink to dimensions... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pągines
...country seats, would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should see straggling huts built of wood and covered with thatch,...equipages, the interior of the shops and dwellings. Such a change in the state of a nation seems to be at least as well entitled to the notice of a historian... | |
 | 1849 - 390 pągines
...We shonld see straggling hnts bnilt of wood and covered with thatoh, where we now see mannfactnring towns and seaports renowned to the farthest ends of the world. The capital fit' wonld shrink to dimensions not mnch exceeding those of its present snbnrb on the sonth of the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 546 pągines
...as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should see straggling huts bnilt of wood and covered with thatch, where we now see...equipages, the interior of the shops and dwellings. Such a change in the state of a nation seems to be at least as well entitled to the notice of a historian... | |
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