 | Charles Buck - Children - 1808 - 374 pages
...yet, see the change ; for when our houses were built of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now, when our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are...many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. In these, the courage of the owner was a sufficient defence to keep the house in safety; but now the... | |
 | English literature - 1810 - 576 pages
...more entwine The sober lawyer than the dull divine : * " When our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our roen are nut only become willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration."... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pages
...houfes were builded of willow, then had we oaken but now that our houfes are come to be made of men; oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of ilraw, which is a fore alteration. In thefe the courage of the owner was a fufficient defence to keep... | |
 | Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn - Kent (England) - 1814 - 382 pages
...but oak any where regarded, and yet see the change : for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men; but now that our houses are come...many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. In these the courage of the owner was a sufficient defence to keep the house in safety, but now the... | |
 | Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn - Kent (England) - 1814 - 380 pages
...biK oak any where regarded, and yet sec the change: for when oat houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men artf not only become willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. In these... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1815 - 398 pages
...nothing but oak any where regarded. Yct see the elmnge; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men; but now that our houses are come...our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogcther of straw, which is a sore alteration. — Now have we many chimnies, and yct our tender... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1819 - 368 pages
...but oak any where regarded; and yet see the change; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men; but now that our houses are come...many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. In these the courage of the owner was a sufficient defence to keep the house in safety; but now the... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...When our houses were built of willow, then we had oaken men ; but now our houses are come to be built of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of straw." Now, if, from this curious passage, we were to infer that stone and lime buildings had not been used... | |
 | Alexander Mundell - 1825 - 244 pages
...any where regarded ; and yet see the change, for when our houses were builded of willow, then we had oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be...many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. In these, the courage of the owner was a sufficient defence to keep the house in safety, but now the... | |
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... palaces, navigation, &c. but now sallow, &c. are rejected, and nothing but oak any where regarded ; and yet see the change ; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our... 
