 | Periodicals - 1835 - 272 pages
...and yet see the change: for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men : but now our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are...many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. In them the courage of the owner was a sufficient defence to keep the house in safety : but now the... | |
 | John Holland - Coal - 1835 - 514 pages
...were buylded of willowe then we had oken men, but nowe that our houses are come to be made of oke, our men are not only become willow, but a great many...altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration." About fifty years afterwards, the apprehensions of Harrison relative to the decay of wood fuel, appear... | |
 | John Holland - Coal - 1835 - 516 pages
...were buylded of willowe then we had oken men, but nowe that our houses are come to be made of oke, our men are not only become willow, but a great many...altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration." About fifty years afterwards, the apprehensions of Harrison relative to the decay of wood fuel, appear... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 594 pages
...building houses is now regarded, ' for when our houses (says he) were built of willow, then we had oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not onlyliecome willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration.' But though they... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Agricultural innovations - 1841 - 484 pages
...required for building houses, but oak ; for," says he, " when our houses were built of willow, then we had oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be...not only become willow, but a great many altogether straw." Such was life in England, in the days of the Reformation ; and what was it, think we, in earlier... | |
 | Agriculture - 1843 - 582 pages
...to applaud, for he remarks in another place — " when our houses were of willow, then had we ashen men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willowe, but a great manie altogether of strawe, which is a sore alteration." The question of the rotation... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indians of North America - 1847 - 680 pages
...but oak any where regarded : and yet, see the change : for when our houses were built of willow, then had we oaken men; but now that our houses are come...many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. 11. Penmal 35. "•' In former times the courage of thcowner wasn sufficient deme™8t fcnce to keep... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indians of North America - 1847 - 732 pages
...but oak any where regarded : and yet, see the change : for when our houses were built of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come...willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sere alteration. 11. Penonai 35. "' In former times the courage of the owner was a sufficient decoumgc.... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1848 - 588 pages
...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... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1849 - 496 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... | |
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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... 
