 Very many have for their entire subsistence but potatoes, with a little grease, brown or black bread, often bad ; and for their drink a tincture of chicory.  Parliamentary Papers - Էջ 20Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1871Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | United States. Congress - 1872 - 912 էջ
...seldom seen, and milk is a luxury afforded by only the better class ol workmen. ' ' Very many have tor their entire subsistence but potatoes with a little...bread, often bad, and for their drink the tincture above mentioned. " ' More than nine hundred thousand persons, one fifth of tbe population (of Belgium)... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1872 - 914 էջ
...luxury afforded by only tho better class of workmen. "'Very many have for their entire subsistence bat potatoes with a little grease, brown or black bread, often bad. and for their drink the tincture above mentioned. " ' More than nine hundred thovsand persons, one fifth of the population (of Belgium)... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 436 էջ
...no part of the bill of fare either for the man or his family." From Belgium Mr. Pakenham reports : " Very many have for their entire subsistence but potatoes...brown or black bread, often bad, and for their drink a tincture of chickory." (Reports of 1871, p. 20.) farmer would reason that, as he was but just able... | |
 | David Cunningham (civil engineer.) - 1878 - 424 էջ
...diet, or where animal food is added, it is of a crude and cheap kind. Thus, in Belgium, we find that ' very many have for their entire subsistence but potatoes...bad, and for their drink the tincture of chicory.' . . . . ' Sugar is seldom seen, and milk is a luxury afforded by only the better class of workmen.'... | |
 | David Cunningham (civil engineer.) - 1878 - 470 էջ
...where animal food is added, it is of a crude and cheap kind. Thus, in Belgium, we find that ' veiy many have for their entire subsistence but potatoes...bad, and for their drink the tincture of chicory.' . . . . ' Sugar is seldom seen, and milk is a luxury afforded by only the better class of workmen.'... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1883 - 506 էջ
...of fare, either for the man or his family." Of the laborers of Belgium, an official report states: "Very many have for their entire subsistence but potatoes,...brown or black bread, often bad; and for their drink a tincture of chicory." And even through large portions of happy England, the fabled land of the beef-eater,... | |
 | Adolphus Julius Frederick Behrends - 1886 - 336 էջ
...flavor," when the working classes of Holland and Belgium very rarely taste meat, their food being mainly "potatoes, with a little grease, brown or black bread, often bad, and for their drink a tincture of chickory," it is time for enlightened legislation to compel employers to cease from a... | |
 | Adolphus Julius Frederick Behrends - 1886 - 332 էջ
...flavor," when the working classes of Holland and Belgium very rarely taste meat, their food being mainly "potatoes, with a little grease, brown or black bread, often bad, and for their drink a tincture of chickory," it is time for enlightened legislation to compel employers to cease from a... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1889 - 348 էջ
...no part of the bill of fare, either for the man or his family." From Belgium Mr. Pakenham wrote : " Very many have for their entire subsistence but potatoes...brown or black bread, often bad, and for their drink a tincture of chiccory." Now, France, Holland and Belgium are not among the worst but among the best... | |
 | Franklin Monroe Sprague - 1892 - 528 էջ
...in Holland. It forms no part of the bill of fare, either for the man or his family." In Belgium, " Very many have for their entire subsistence but potatoes...brown or black bread, often bad, and for their drink a tincture of chiccory." "To-day, in the west of England, it is impossible for an agricultural laborer... | |
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