 | William Lucas Sargant - Taxation - 1874 - 384 pages
...anywhere 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. Now we have many chimneys, and yet our tender limbs complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses ; then... | |
 | Philip Stubbs - Costume - 1879 - 794 pages
...nmv. — Cp. Harrison, Part I, p. 337-8, "when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oke, our men are not onlie become willow, but a great manie . . altogether of straw," &c. p. 55. Dublets... | |
 | David Hume - 1882 - 494 pages
...were builded of willow, then ha/1 we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come u te rr.aile of 'Uk, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration. la these the courage of the owner was a sufficient defence to keep the house in safety ; but now the... | |
 | Phillip Stubbes - Costume - 1877 - 548 pages
...nmu. — Cp. Harrison, Part I, p. 337-8, "when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oke, our men are not onlie become willow, but a great manie . . altogither of straw," &c. p. 55. Düblet... | |
 | Richard Welford - Gateshead (England) - 1885 - 564 pages
...reredosse in the hall where he dined and dressed his meat. 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 men are not only become willows, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration." Extracts from the register... | |
 | James Parton - Women - 1885 - 614 pages
...but oak anywhere 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. Now we have many chimneys ; and yet our tendcrlines complain of rheum, catarrh, and poses" (colds).... | |
 | Yorkshire Geological Society - Geology - 1885 - 582 pages
...oken men; but uowe that our houses are come to be made of oke, our men are not only become willowe, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration." We see that the complaint is not new in 1886, for it is still said that the last generation was better... | |
 | James Parton - Women - 1886 - 588 pages
...but oak anywhere 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. Now we have many chimneys ; and yet our Underlines complain of rheum, catarrh, and poses" (colds).... | |
 | Giuseppe Mattei, Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil) - Wales - 1887 - 608 pages
...but oak anywhere 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... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - English literature - 1890 - 370 pages
...rafters. "And yet see the change," he says, "for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oke, our men are not onlie become willow, but a great manic, through Persian delicacie crept in among... | |
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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... 
