We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark. Roundabout papers - Pagina 98door William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 414 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 858 pagina’s
...other side — it is gone. There is no other side. Try and catch yesterday. Where is it ? Here is a Times newspaper, dated Monday 26th, and this is Tuesday,...the Ark. The children will gather round and say to из patriarchs, " Tell us, grandpapa, about the old world." And we shall mumble our old stories ;... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 858 pagina’s
...other side — it is gone. There is no other side. Try and catch yesterday. Where is it ? Here is a Times newspaper, dated Monday 26th, and this is Tuesday,...out of the Ark. The children will gather round and вау to us patriarchs, " Tell us, grandpapa, about the old world." And we shall mumble our old stories... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pagina’s
...other side — it is gone. There is no other side. Try and catch yesterday. Where is it? Here is a " Times" newspaper, dated Monday 26th, and this is Tuesday...Suppose you deny there was such a day as yesterday 1 We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pagina’s
...other side — it is gone. There it no other side. Try and catch yesterday. Where is it? Here is a Times newspaper, dated Monday 26th, and this is Tuesday...the Ark. The children will gather round and say to ns patriarchs, " Tell us, grandpapa, about the old world." And we shall mumble our old stories ; and... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 666 pagina’s
...no other side. Try and catch yesterday. Where is it 1 Here is a Times newspaper, dated Monday 20th, and this is Tuesday 27th. Suppose you deny there was...Ark. The children will gather round and say to us putriurrhs, " Tell us, grandpapa, about the old world." And we shall mumble our old stories ; and we... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 pagina’s
...other side — it is gone. There is no other side. Try and catch yesterday. Where is itf Here is a mer Alph@˓ Bhall drop off one by one; and there will be fewer and fewer of us, and these very old and feeble.... | |
| Asa Briggs - 1985 - 488 pagina’s
...that gunpowder and printing tended to modernize the world. But your railroad starts a new era . . . We who lived before railways and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his fanuly out of the Ark. Railways and telegraphs, the first nineteenth-century invention dealing with... | |
| Peter Gay - 2002 - 374 pagina’s
...shock, the railroad now "starts the new era." Those who had lived before its advent were antediluvians, "like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark. The...will gather round and say to us patriarchs, 'Tell us, grandpa, about the old world.' And we shall mumble our old stories, and we shall drop off one by one,... | |
| Gina M. Dorré - 2006 - 202 pagina’s
...pack-horses, highwaymen, ... all these belong to the old period. ... But your railroad starts the new era. ... We who lived before railways, and survive out of the...are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark. Here, where animals are the figurative retainers of the pre-industrial age, the diluvian reference... | |
| Asa Briggs - 1993 - 452 pagina’s
...that gunpowder and printing tended to modernize the world. But your railroad starts a new era. . . . We who lived before railways and survive out of the...world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark'.1 Transport was also important in determining the chronology of Victorian urban development. Railway... | |
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