 | 1849 - 618 pages
...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 nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats. The produce of tropical countries, the produce of the mines, the produce of machinery was positively dearer... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...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 nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats. The produce of tropical countries, the produce of the mines, the produce of machinery, was positively dearer... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...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 nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats. The produce of tropical countries, the produce of the mines, the produce of machinery, was positively dearer... | |
 | 1849 - 638 pages
...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 nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats. The produce of tropical countries, the produce of the mines, the produce of machinery was positively dearer... | |
 | 1849 - 844 pages
...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 pages
...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...lived almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats. The produce of tropical countries, the produce of the mines, the produce of machinery, was positively dearer... | |
 | 1850 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 546 pages
...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...lived almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats. The produce of tropical countries, the produce of the mines, the produce of machinery, was positively dearer... | |
 | John James - 1857 - 728 pages
...workhouse, was then seldom seen even on the " trencher of a yeoman or of a shopkeeper. The greater "majority of the nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley, " and oats. The produce of tropical countries, the produce of " the mines, and the produce of machinery, was positively... | |
 | James Birchall - 1861 - 760 pages
...to the inmates of a work- provisionshouse, was then seldom seen on the trencher of a yeoman, or of a shopkeeper. The great majority of the nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats. Meat was cheaper than at present, the mean price of mutton being 16d. the stone of 8tb. ; but, compared... | |
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Second, was fifty shillings. Bread therefore, 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 nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats. 
