 | 1849 - 618 lehte
...such as is now given to the inmates of a workhouse, was then seldom seen even on the trencher of a yeoman or of a shopkeeper. The great majority of the...than at present. Among the commodities for which the labourer would have to pay higher in 1685 than his posterity pay in 1848 were, sugar, salt, coals,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 lehte
...such as is now given to the inmates of a work-house, was then seldom seen, even on the trencher of a yeoman or of a shop-keeper. The great majority of...have had to pay higher in 1685 than his posterity pay in 1848, were sugar, salt, coals, candles, soap, shoes, stockings, and, generally, all articles... | |
 | 1849 - 638 lehte
...such as is now given to the inmates of a workhouse, was then seldom seen even on the trencher of a yeoman or of a shopkeeper. The great majority of the...than at present. Among the commodities for which the labourer would have to pay higher in 1685 than his posterity pay in 1848 were, sugar, salt, coals,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 lehte
...such as is now given to the inmates of a workhouse, was then seldom seen, even on the trencher of a yeoman or of a shopkeeper. The great majority of the...than at present. Among the commodities for which the labourer would have had to pay higher in 1685 than his posterity pay in 1848, were sugar, salt, coals,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 464 lehte
...such as is now given to the inmates of a workhouse, was then seldom seen, even on the trencher of a yeoman or of a shopkeeper. The great majority of the...than at present. Among the commodities for which the labourer would have had to pay higher in 1685 than his posterity pay in 1848, were sugar, salt, coals,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 480 lehte
...such as is now given to the inmates of a workhouse, was then seldom seen, even on the trencher of a yeoman or of a shopkeeper. The great majority of the...machinery, was positively dearer than at present. Amomg the commodities for which the labourer would have had to pay higher in 1685 than his posterity... | |
 | 1849 - 892 lehte
...such as is now given to the inmates of a workhouse, was then seldom teen, even on the trencher of a yeoman or of a shopkeeper. The great majority of the...The produce of tropical countries, the produce of tlie mines, the produce of machinery, was positively dearer than at present. Among the commodities... | |
 | 1849 - 844 lehte
...inmates of a workhouse, was then seldom seen, even on the trencher of a yeoman or of a shop keeper. The great majority of the nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats." If this be true, there must be a vast mistake somewhere — a delusion which most assuredly ought to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 lehte
...now given to the inmates of a workhouse, was then seldom seen, even on the trencher of a yeoman or a shopkeeper. The great majority of the nation lived...than at present. Among the commodities for which the labourer would have had to pay higher in 1685 than his posterity pay in 1848 were sugar, salt, coals,... | |
 | 1850 - 524 lehte
...relatively with wages, was " so dear that hundreds of thousands of families scarcely knew the taste of it The great majority of the nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats." (Hist. Eng. voL L p. 418., 4th ed.) It is not uninteresting to inquire (and having found, it is worth... | |
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In the cost of wheat there has been very little change. The average price of the quarter, during the last twelve years of Charles the Second, was fifty shillings. Bread, therefore, such as is now given to the inmates of a workhouse, was then seldom seen,... 
