 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1775 - 400 pages
...houfes were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our boufes are come to be madeofoak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of draw, which is a fore alteration. In thefe the courage of the owner was a fuificient defence to keep... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 438 pages
...change, for when our houfes were buildcd of willow, then had we oaken men; but now that our huufes are come to be made of oak , our men are not only become willow , but a great many altogether of ftraw , which is a fore alteration. In thefe the courage of the owner was a fufficient defence to keep... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 488 pages
...change ; for when our houfes were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houfes are come to be made, of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether offtraw, which is a fore alteration. In thefe the courage of the owner was a fufficient defence to... | |
 | 482 pages
...change, for, when our houfes were builded of willow, then had we oalcen men ; but now, that our houfes are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of ftraw, which is a fore alteration. In thefe, the coitrage of the owner was a fufficient defence to... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 422 pages
...when our houfes were builded of willow, then had we oaktn men ; but now that our houfes are come te be made of oak, our men are not only become willow» but a great many altogether of ftraw, which is a fore alteration. In thefe, the courage of the owner wat a fufficient defence to keep... | |
 | Universalism - 1799 - 404 pages
...change, for when our houfes were builded of willow, then had we oaken men; but now that our houfes are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of ftraw, which is a fore alteration. In thefe the courage of the owner was a fuificient defence to keep... | |
 | Universalism - 1799 - 394 pages
...were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houfes are come to be made of oak1, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of ftraw, which is a fore alteration. In thefe the courage of the owner was a fufficient defence to keep... | |
 | John Baillie - Newcastle upon Tyne (England) - 1801 - 642 pages
...houfes were buylded of willowe then had we oken men, but now that our houfes are come to be made of oke, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of draw, which is a fore alteration." April 26, 1582, Qjjeen Elizabeth obtained a leafe of the manors... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 362 pages
...Again, in time past, men. were contented to dwell in houses built of sallow, willow, &c. so that the us? of oak was, in a manner, dedicated wholly unto churches,...must defend the men from robbing. Now have we many chimuies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, -catarrhs, and poses ; then had we none but reredoses,... | |
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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... 
