 The population, sparse as it was, was perpetually thinned by pestilence and want. Nor was the state of the townsman better than that of the rustic ; his bed was a bag of straw, with a fair round log for his pillow. If he was in easy circumstances, his...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 247edited by - 1863Full view - About this book
 | John William Draper - Europe - 1863 - 656 pages
...a bag of straw, with a fair round log for his pillow. If he was in easy circumstances, his clothing was of leather ; if poor, a wisp of straw wrapped...the troops of pilgrims, mendicants, pardoners, and ecclesiastics of every grade who hung round the Church, to the nightly wassail and rioting drunkenness... | |
 | John William Draper - Civilization - 1864 - 648 pages
...a bag of straw, with a fair round log for his pillow. If he was in easy circumstances, his clothing was of leather ; if poor, a wisp of straw wrapped...intervened between reed cabins in the fen, the miserable wig» warns of villages, and the conspicuous walls of the castle and monastery. Well might they who... | |
 | John William Draper - Europe - 1875 - 464 pages
...a hard round log for his pillow. If he was in easy circumstances, his clothing was of leather, 5.f poor, a wisp of straw wrapped round his limbs kept...the troops of pilgrims, mendicants, pardoners, and ecclesiastics of every grade who hung round the Church, to the nightly wassail and rioting drunkenness... | |
 | James Stephen Jeans - 1885 - 480 pages
...want. It was a miserable social condition, when nothing intervened between the reed cabins in the fens, the miserable wigwams of villages, and the conspicuous walls of the castle and the monastery. Rural life had but little improved since the time of Caesar; in its physical aspect... | |
 | James Stephen Jeans - Great Britain - 1885 - 482 pages
...want. It was a miserable social condition, when nothing intervened between the reed cabins in the fens, the miserable wigwams of villages, and the conspicuous walls of the castle and the monastery. Eural life had but little improved since the time of Caesar ; in its physical aspect... | |
 | Dadabhai Naoroji - Great Britain - 1888 - 248 pages
...better than that of the rustic ; his bed was a bag of straw, with a fair round log for his pillow. ... It was a melancholy social condition when nothing...villages, and the conspicuous walls of the castle and the monastery. . . . Rural life had but little improved since the time of Caesar ; in its physical... | |
 | Mormons - 1922 - 862 pages
...circumstances, his clothing was of leather, if poor, a wisp of straw wrapped around his limbs kept off the cold. Well might they who lived in those times bewail the lot of the ague stricken peasant, and point not without indignation to the troops of pilgrims, mendicants, pardoners,... | |
 | Sunderlal - India - 1970 - 452 pages
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