 | William Cobbett - 1824 - 394 psl.
...object of pride with the people, and to make the nation truly and permanently great. Go into any county, and survey, even at this day, the ruins of its, perhaps,...Priories ; and, then, ask yourself, "what have we ire exchange for these "? Go to the site of some onceopulent Convent. Look at the cloister, now become,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1829 - 538 psl.
...object of pride with the people, and to make the nation truly and permanently great. Go into any county, and survey, even at this day, the ruins of its, perhaps,...we in exchange for these "? Go to the site of some once-opulent Convent. Look at the cloister, now become, in the hands of a rackrenter, the receptacle... | |
 | Mathieu Orsini - 1864 - 890 psl.
...begun by banishing almsdeeds and hospitality.1 (1) "Go into any county," says the radical Cobbett, "and survey, even at this day, the ruins of its perhaps...Look at the cloister, now become, in the hands of a rack-renter, the receptacle for dung, fodder, and fagot-wood ; see the hall, where, for ages, the widow,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1867 - 594 psl.
...institutions is worthy of the learned and eloquent author of 'Monks of the West': ' Go into any county, and survey, even at this day, the ruins of its perhaps...Look at the cloister, now become, in the hands of some rack-renter, the receptacle for dung, fodder, and fagot-wood. See tho hall, where for ages the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1867 - 698 psl.
...eloquent author of 'Monks of the West': ' Go into any county, and survey, even at this day, the mine of its perhaps twenty abbeys and priories, and then...exchange for these ? " Go to the site of some once opident convent. Look at the cloister, now become, in the hands of some tack-renter, the receptacle... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1868 - 472 psl.
...of pride with the people, and to make the nation truly and permanently great. " Go into any county and survey, even at this day, the ruins of its, perhaps,...convent. Look at the cloister, now become in the hands of some rack-renter the receptacle for dung, fodder, and fagot-wood. See the hall, where for ages the... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1868 - 450 psl.
...of pride with the people, and to make the nation truly and permanently great. " Qo into any county and survey, even at this day, the ruins of its, perhaps,...twenty abbeys and priories, and then ask yourself ' AVhat have we in exchange for these ?' Go to the site of some once opulent convent. Look at the cloister,... | |
 | Cecilia MacGregor - 1873 - 318 psl.
...the question arises in our minds, ' What have we in exchange for these?' Wandering amidst the ruins of some once opulent convent, look at the cloister,...in the hands of a rack renter, the receptacle for fodder and faggots. See the hall where for ages the widow, and orphan, and the aged, and the stranger... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1874 - 620 psl.
...of his picturesque style and the way in which he mingles description and abuse. ' Go into my county and survey even at this day the ruins of its perhaps...convent. Look at the cloister, now become in the hands of some rack-renter the receptacle for dung, fodder, and faggot wood. See the hall where for ages the... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1876 - 626 psl.
...of pride with the people, and to make the nation truly and permanently great. " Go into any county and survey, even at this day, the ruins of its, perhaps,...convent. Look at the cloister, now become in the hands of some rack-renter the receptacle for dung, fodder, and fagot-wood. See the hall, where for ages the... | |
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What have we in exchange for these?' Go to the site of some once opulent convent. Look at the cloister, now become in the hands of some rack-renter the receptacle for dung, fodder, and fagot-wood. 
