 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1779 - 566 σελίδες
...Elizabeth, defcribes the rudenefs of the preceding generation in the arts of life : " There were very fevf " chimneys even in capital towns : the fire was ** laid to the wall, and the fmoke iffued out at the " roof, or door, or window. The houfes were " wattled and plaiftered over with... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 464 σελίδες
...Hollingshed's account, who was contemporary with Elizabeth ? " There were very few chimnies even in the capital capital towns : the fire was laid to the wall, and the smoke issued out at the roof, or door, or window. The houses were wattled, and plaistered over with clay ; and all the furniture and utensils... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1802 - 220 σελίδες
...defcribes the rudenefs of the preceding generation in the arts of life : There were very few chimnies, even in capital towns: the fire was laid to the wall, and the fmoke iflued out at the roof, or door, or window. The houfes were wattled and plaiftered over with... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1813 - 536 σελίδες
...milk and flesh, and were clothed with skins. Hollinshed, who wrote in the period of Queen Elisabeth, describes the rudeness of the preceding generation...and the smoke issued out " at the roof, or door, or window. The houses " were wattled and plastered over with clay : and " all the furniture and utensils... | |
 | 1819 - 708 σελίδες
...was not whollysold •off in three years. . * la the age next preceding Queen .Elizabeth there were few chimneys -even in capital towns; the fire was laid to the wall, and the smoke issued at> the roof or door, or window. The bouses were wattled and plastered •over with clay; and all the... | |
 | 1819 - 800 σελίδες
...not wholly sold off in three years. In the age next preceding Queen Elizabeth there were few chimney* even in capital towns; the fire was laid to the wall, and the smoke issned at thereof or door, or window. The bouses were watlled and plastered over with clay; and all... | |
 | 1820 - 496 σελίδες
...departed, enchanted with this scene." CHIMNEYS. In the age next preceding Queen Elizabeth, there were few chimneys, even in capital towns : the fire was laid to the wall, and the smoke issued at the roof, or door, or window. The houses were wattled, and plastered over with clay; and all the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1831 - 232 σελίδες
...the manners of a century later than the period we are describing, says " There were very few chimnies even in capital towns : the fire was laid to the wall, and the smoke issued * Edeu's Table of the Convertible Value of British Money, in bis History of the Poor. out at the roof,... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1841 - 484 σελίδες
...chimney. Harrison, speaking of the manners of a century later than the period we are describing, says, " There were very few chimneys, even in capital towns...and the smoke issued out at the roof, or door, or window. The houses were wattled, and plastered over with clay ; and all the furniture and utensils... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 σελίδες
...was scarcely a chimney to the houses, even in considerable towns: the fire was kindled by the side of the wall, and the smoke issued out at the roof, or door, or windows ; the houses were constructed of wattling, plastered over with clay; the people slept on straw... | |
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There were very few chimneys even in capital towns : the fire was laid to the wall, and the smoke issued out at the roof, or door, or window. The houses were wattled, and plastered over with clay; and all the furniture and utensils were of wood. The people... 
