Enter them, and look at the bits of chairs or stools; the wretched boards tacked together, to serve for a table; the floor of pebble, broken brick, or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed ; and survey the rags on the backs of the wretched... Cobbett's Political Register - Page 501edited by - 1830Full view - About this book
| William Cobbett - Country life - 1885 - 430 pages
...boards tacked together, to serve for a table; the floor of pebble, broken brick, or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed ; and survey the rags...are become the favourite establishments of England I) At the village of Hailstone, I got into the purlieu, as they call it in Hampshire, of a person well... | |
| Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - Great Britain - 1904 - 364 pages
...tacked together, to serve for a table ; the floor of pebble, broken brick, or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed ; and survey the rags...are become the favourite establishments of England ! ' l The passage is intense with feelings which filled Cobbett during the whole course of his rides.... | |
| Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - Great Britain - 1904 - 364 pages
...tacked together, to serve for a table ; the floor of pebble, broken brick, or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed ; and survey the rags...are become the favourite establishments of England ! ' 1 The passage is intense with feelings which filled Cobbett during the whole course of his rides.... | |
| Edward Irving Carlyle, John Doyle - Great Britain - 1904 - 368 pages
...tacked together, to serve for a table ; the floor of pebble, broken brick, or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed ; and survey the rags...are become the favourite establishments of England ! ' 1 The passage is intense with feelings which filled Cobbett during the whole course of his rides.... | |
| William Cobbett - England - 1908 - 426 pages
...boards tacked together, to serve for a table; the floor of pebble, broken brick, or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed ; and survey the rags...Hampshire, of a person well known in the Wen ; namely, the Reverend Beresford, rector of that fat affair, St. Andrew's, Holborn ! In walking through the village,... | |
| William Henry Ricketts Curtler - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1909 - 404 pages
...boards tacked together to serve for a table, the floor of pebble, broken brick, or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed, and survey the rags on the backs of the wretched inhabitants.' 1 The chief exceptions to this state of affairs were the estates of many of the great landlords. On... | |
| John Lawrence Hammond, Barbara Bradby Hammond - Agricultural laborers - 1913 - 446 pages
...wretched boards tacked together to serve for a table, the floor of pebble broken or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed, and survey the rags on the backs of the inhabitants.' * A Dorsetshire clergyman, a witness before the Committee on Wages in 1824, said that... | |
| George Douglas Howard Cole - Great Britain - 1925 - 504 pages
...tacked together to serve f or a table ; the floor of pebble, broken brick, or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed ; and survey the rags...inhabitants ; and then wonder, if you can, that the gaols and dungeons and treadmills increase, and that a standing array and barracks are become the favourite... | |
| Emery Edward Neff - Great Britain - 1926 - 458 pages
...wretched boards tacked together to serve for a table, the floor of pebble broken or of the bare ground ; look at the thing called a bed, and survey the rags on the backs of the inhabitants." " The peasant was lucky if meat was added to his meagre bread and potatoes once a fortnight;... | |
| William Cobbett - Travel - 2005 - 329 pages
...boards tacked together to serve for a table; the floor of pebble, broken brick, or of the bare ground; look at the thing called a bed; and survey the rags...wretched inhabitants; and then wonder if you can that the gaols and dungeons and treadmills increase, and that a standing army and barracks are become the favourite... | |
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