 | William Smith Porter - 1663 - 196 trang
...gentleman's house containing three or four beds was extraordinarily well provided ; few probably had more than two. The walls were commonly bare, without wainscot or even plaster ; neither libraries of books, nor pictures, could have found a place among furniture. Silver plate... | |
 | 1822 - 634 trang
...some great houses were furnished with hang- ' ings, and that hardly so soon as the reign of Edward IV. Neither libraries of books nor pictures, could have...place among furniture. Silver plate was very rare, and scarce ever used for the table. At the house of a rich Venetian trader in St. Botblph's Lane, in the... | |
 | 1820 - 848 trang
...gentleman's house containing three or four beds was extraordinarily well provided ; few probably had more than two. The walls were commonly bare, without...that perhaps hardly so soon as the reign of Edward 4th. It is unnecessary to add, that neither libraries of books nor pictures could have found a place... | |
 | Editor of The family manual and servant's guide - 1835 - 412 trang
...Even in the fifteenth century, a gentleman's bouse containing three or four beds was well provided. The walls were commonly bare, without wainscot, or...perhaps hardly so soon as the reign of Edward IV. Neither books nor pictures, (as will be recollected from our previous chapter on Education,) could... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1835 - 386 trang
...gentleman's house containing three or four beds was extraordinarily well provided ; few probably had more than two. The walls were commonly bare, without...some great houses were furnished with hangings, and thai perhaps hardly so soon as the reign of Edward IV. It is unnecessary to add, that neither libraries... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1840 - 396 trang
...well provided ; few probably had more than two. The walls were commonly bare, without wainscot oreven plaster ; except that some great houses were furnished...hangings, and that perhaps hardly so soon as the reign of (t ) Moratorl, Antich. Ilal. Dissert. 25. p. 890. lion to a remote antiquity. Chimneys are still leckman,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 828 trang
...house containing throe or four beds was thought to be extraordinarily well provided ; few probably had more than two. The walls were commonly bare, without wainscot or even plaster, except that some great 128 houses were furnished with hangings, and that, ¡т haps, hardly so soon as the reign of Edwrini... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1846 - 582 trang
...gentleman's house containing three or four beds was extraordinarily well provided ; few probably had more than two. The walls were commonly bare, without...some great houses were furnished with hangings, and Craven, p. 331. This may, I think, have toute line famillc, et quelquefois a plubeen only an iron stove... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1848 - 570 trang
...gentleman's house containing three or four beds was extraordinarily well provided ; few probably had more than two. The walls were commonly bare, without...that some great houses were furnished with hangings, ana that perhaps hardly so soon as the reign of Edward IV. It is unnecessary to add, that neither libraries... | |
 | William Chambers - 1849 - 830 trang
...house containing three or four beds was thought to be extraordinary well provided ; few probably had more than two. The walls were commonly bare, without...that some great houses were furnished with hangings, aud that perhaps hardly so soon as the reign of Edward VI. Neither books nor pictures could find a... | |
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... far less would this luxurious generation be content with their internal accommodations. A gentleman's house containing three or four beds was extraordinarily well provided; few probably had more than two. The walls were commonly bare, without wainscot,... 
