| David Hume - Great Britain - 1856 - 513 pages
...heretofore has been impossible. There are old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain, which have noted three things to be marvellously altered...lately erected; whereas in their young days, there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm ; (the religious houses and... | |
| 1008 pages
...chambers." Holinshed, who lived in this reign, tells us, that old men living in the villages " may have noted three things to be marvellously altered in England within their ELIZiBETn PLiTlHQ OK TUB VlEOUUI.S. but each made his fire against the reredosse in the hall where... | |
| Marcius Willson - Indians of North America - 1857 - 712 pages
...old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain, who have noted three things to be niarvelously altered in England within their sound remembrance, ^One is the multitude of chimneys lately erected 5 whereas, in their young days; there were net above two or three, if so many,... | |
| David Hume - 1859 - 228 pages
...heretofore has been impossible : there are old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain, which have noted three things to be marvellously altered...England within their sound remembrance. One is, the multitnde of chimnies lately erected; whereas, in their young days, there were not above two or three,... | |
| Duffield William Coller - Essex (England) - 1861 - 660 pages
...before that period, says — " There are old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain, which have noted three things to be marvellously altered in England within their sound remembrance. One it the multitude of chimniee lately erected ; whereas in their young days there were not above two... | |
| 1864 - 936 pages
...time. As quoted by Hume, he says, " There are old men yet dwelling in the village where 1 remain, which have noted three things to be marvellously altered...within their sound remembrance. One is the multitude of chimneys lately erected ; whereas, in their young days, there were not above two or three, if so many,... | |
| John Timbs - England - 1867 - 408 pages
...Chronicle, writes in the reign of Elizabeth : " There are old men dwelling in the village where I remayne, who have noted three things to be marvellously altered...within their sound remembrance. One is the multitude of chimneys lately erected ; whereas, in their younger days, there was not about two or three, if so many,... | |
| William Lucas Sargant - Taxation - 1874 - 384 pages
...heretofore has been impossible. There are old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain which have noted three things to be marvellously altered...their sound remembrance. One is, the multitude of chimneys lately erected, whereas in their younger days there were not above two or three, if so many,... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1874 - 446 pages
...beginning of Elizabeth's reign, says: " There are old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain which have noted three things to be marvellously altered in England within their Bound remembrance: One is the multitudes of chimneys lately erected; whereas, in their young days,... | |
| Christian fiction, English - 1875 - 380 pages
...Harrison, " old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain, which have noted three things to bo marvellously altered in England within their sound remembrance. One is the multitude of chimneys lately erected; whereas, in their young days, there were not above two or three, if so many,... | |
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