Domestic Life in England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With Notices of Origins, Inventions, and Modern Improvements in the Social ArtsThomas Tegg and Son, 1835 - 379 halaman |
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... common among their masters to have Feuds with one another , and their ser- vants , at market , or where they met , in that pleton , where there is a sort of prodigy , an entrance passage with circular arches , in the Saxon style , which ...
... common among their masters to have Feuds with one another , and their ser- vants , at market , or where they met , in that pleton , where there is a sort of prodigy , an entrance passage with circular arches , in the Saxon style , which ...
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... of the family ; and " the top beam of the hall , " in allusion to the position of his coat * Whence the common expression , " the top of the tree . " of arms , was a toast , or symbolical manner 16 INTERIOR OF AN 16-25.
... of the family ; and " the top beam of the hall , " in allusion to the position of his coat * Whence the common expression , " the top of the tree . " of arms , was a toast , or symbolical manner 16 INTERIOR OF AN 16-25.
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... common motto was written , as " Waste not , want not , " which exhorted the cooks to care and economy . Before the invention of jacks , poor boys were hired to turn the spits , and , an old writer says , they licked the dripping pan ...
... common motto was written , as " Waste not , want not , " which exhorted the cooks to care and economy . Before the invention of jacks , poor boys were hired to turn the spits , and , an old writer says , they licked the dripping pan ...
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... common drink . The whole family at- tended upon the visiters ; and the master and mistress went round , and did not eat any thing till the guests had finished their meal . After the arrival of the Saxons in England , forms were more ...
... common drink . The whole family at- tended upon the visiters ; and the master and mistress went round , and did not eat any thing till the guests had finished their meal . After the arrival of the Saxons in England , forms were more ...
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... silver and gems : silver tables also occur . It should be remembered that all tables were square at this period ; and they were displaced by the old oaken table of long boards upon tressels , which are common even in our MEALS . 27.
... silver and gems : silver tables also occur . It should be remembered that all tables were square at this period ; and they were displaced by the old oaken table of long boards upon tressels , which are common even in our MEALS . 27.
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Halaman 374 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
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Halaman 352 - As if the natural calamities of life were not sufficient for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from - trifling accidents as from real evils. I have known...
Halaman 209 - But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep. [Aside. CADE. Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Halaman 338 - A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing, or depositing, the rain are opposite to the sun, — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west ; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly wind, a rainbow in the west indicates, that the bad weather is on the road, by the wind, to us ; whereas the rainbow in the east proves, that the rain in these clouds is passing from us.
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Halaman 332 - There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it, the churchyards were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit.