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Halaman 6 - ... the fire was kindled in the centre of the hall ; the smoke made its way out through an opening in the roof immediately above the hearth, or by the door, windows, or eaves of the thatch. The lord and his
Halaman 218 - But convected heat is the great curse of the American people. It is that dry, lifeless, withering, debilitating, poisoned stuff with which most of our best houses and public buildings, and, most unfortunately, many of our...
Halaman 15 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Halaman 78 - The family constitute one community; the servants another. Whatever may be their mutual regard and confidence as dwellers under the same roof, each class is entitled to shut its door upon the other, and be alone'.29 Up-to-date notions of decorum and privacy dictated that servants be kept at arm's length.
Halaman 78 - It is a first principle with the better classes of English people that the Family Rooms shall be essentially private, and as much as possible the Family Thoroughfares. It becomes the foremost of all maxims, therefore however small the establishment, that the Servants...
Halaman 23 - Adams; with such gentlemen as came there, under the degree of a knight, attended by footmen, and plentifully served with wine. At the second table in the hall (served from my Lord's table, and with other hot meats), sat the sewer, with the gentlemen waiters and pages, to the number of twenty-four.
Halaman 5 - The king's villeins were compelled by law to erect nine buildings for him : a hall, a chamber, a buttery, a stable, a dog-house, a barn, a kiln — or oven, I suppose — a privy, and a dormitory.
Halaman 79 - Kerr on the complete separation of 'the two communities', family and servants. Should the mistress not have the run of her own house? Should the master not have his own servants when he needs them? The treatment of servants as an inferior class, whom it is shocking to the refined feelings of their superiors to see or to come in contact with; who have no interests in common with the master; who are paid to do their work . . . but no more, helps to produce the want of interest in their work, the love...
Halaman 22 - ... rendered a too close sociability with their dependants inconvenient and expensive. In addition to the instances already cited, we find in the rules made for the royal household in 1458, that the marshal of the hall was to see "That the order of settynge in the halle be kepte aftir the olde customek ;" and even in the early days of Queen Elizabeth it was considered a good household precept that " all eatinge in chambers should be prohibited other than suche as are ordynarely allowed to kepe chambers'.
Halaman 65 - the place of great reception rooms might in many cases be supplied by a Hall of the old type, which would have even greater dignity, without their dismal character when out of use. Such a hall forms a charming feature even in a moderately sized country house. It is much better than a drawing room for dancing and games; for the oak floor may be left exposed opposite couches and fireplace, and instead of the quantities of fragile furniture and ornaments with which a drawing room is usually encumbered,...