...Macaulay, writing thirty years ago, men placed the ' golden age of this country in the days of Charles II., in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts...raise a riot in a modern workhouse, when men died in the purest country air faster than they now do in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and...

...we shall find it recede before us ' into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion ' to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...destitute of comforts, the want of which would be in' tolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers ' breakfasted on loaves the very sight...

...their waged. These are among their first endeavours." ENGLAND AS IT WILL BE. IT la now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very eight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse ; and when men died faster in the purest country...

...faith and praise, are, if we may trust Macaulay, the follies of the sentimentalist. In those ages " noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern...

...backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the Golden Age of England in times when noblemen...died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns...

...backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the Golden Age of England in times when noblemen...died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns...

...backward, we shall find it redede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of onr towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns...

...backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns...

...backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen...died faster in the purest country air than they now die in the most pestilential lanes of our towns, and when men died faster in the lanes of our towns...

...backward, we shall find it recede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of com- ;' forts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers...