 England is not yet a commercial country in the sense in which that epithet is used for her; and let us still hope that she will not soon become so. She might surely as well be called feudal England, or chivalrous England.  Doctor Thorne: A Novel : In 2 Vols - Page 18by Anthony Trollope - 1858 - 4 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Anthony Trollope - 1893 - 462 pages
...become what they are. England is not yet a commercial country in the sense in which that epithet is used for her ; and let us still hope that she will...feudal England, or chivalrous England. If in western civilised Europe there does exist a nation among whom there are high signors, and with whom the owners... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1900 - 422 pages
...become what they are. England is not yet a commercial country in the sense in which that epithet is used for her; and let us still hope that she will...feudal England, or chivalrous England. If in western civilised Europe there does exist a nation among whom there are high signers, and with whom the owners... | |
 | Arthur Anthony Baumann - Great Britain - 1927 - 352 pages
...England is not yet a commercial country in the sense in which that epithet is used for her ; and let us hope that she will not soon become so. She might surely...feudal England or chivalrous England. If in Western civilised Europe there does still exist a nation among whom there are high signers, and with whom the... | |
 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...England is not yet a commercial country in the sense in which that epithet is used for her; and let us hope that she will not soon become so. She might surely...feudal England, or chivalrous England. If in western civilised Europe there does exist a nation among whom there are high signers, and with whom the owners... | |
 | Christopher Herbert - History - 1991 - 384 pages
...what is often said, the narrator thus proclaims, "England is not yet a commercial country"; at heart "she might surely as well be called feudal England, or chivalrous England." The sign of this persistence of the primitive national soul in the modern day is that "merchants as... | |
 | Michael Winter - Business & Economics - 1996 - 368 pages
...creates. (Southey 1829: 197) England is not yet a commercial country in the sense in which that epithet is used for her: and let us still hope that she will not soon become so — Merchants as such are not the first among us; though it perhaps be open to a merchant to become... | |
 | Marianne Novy - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 328 pages
...description becomes an occasion to extoll what he perceives as the traditional English way of life. might surely as well be called feudal England, or...there does exist a nation among whom there are high signers, and with whom the owners of the land are the true aristocracy, the aristocracy that is trusted... | |
 | Martin J. Wiener - History - 2004 - 242 pages
...Doctor Thorne ( 1858): England is not yet a commercial country in the sense in which that epithet is used for her; and let us still hope that she will not soon become so. . . England a commercial country! Yes; as Venice was. She may excel other nations in commerce, but... | |
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