The Story of Our English Towns - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1150959029 ISBN 13: 9781150959028

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1907 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII MODERN CHANGES AND SURVIVALS Contrasts--Changes in the appearance of manufacturing towns--Changed industries--The old town-balls--The market-cross--Scenes in the market-place--Burning witches--Norwich riots--Birmingham riots--Nottingham and the framework knitters--The parish church--Old windows--Desecrations--Preservation of ancient features of the church--Old inns--" The Bull" Inn at Coventry--Ancient hostels--Curious signs--Conclusion. A Great gulf yawns between the England of to-day and that strange, vigorous, youthful England which is so far removed from us, not so much by the lapse of years, but by the mighty changes, social and political, which time has wrought. Old beliefs, old desires, old-world notions and convictions have passed away never to return; and in their place are seen a restless, shifting mass of human thought and working, o'er which wild "Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns; next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all." Milton's grand description of Chaos and old Night holding eternal anarchy, amidst the noise of endless wars and by confusion standing, not unfitly depicts the modern turmoil of conflicting thought and the warring winds of agitation and unrest. We cannot cross the gulf that separates the old world and the new, and can only dimly imagine what kind of men they were who laid the foundations of our mighty empire, and ruled and worked and strove where we strive now. "Only among the aisles of the cathedrals, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some faint conceptions float before us of what these men were when they were alive; and perhaps in the sound of church bells, that peculiar creation of mediaeval age, which falls upon the ear like the ech...

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• ISBN 10: 1150959029
• ISBN 13: 9781150959028
• Einband: Tapa blanda