A New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels: Containing Whatever is Worthy of Notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, כרך 5J. Knox, 1767 |
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עמוד 235 - ... tis the established custom for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties. And these engagements are so well known, that it would be a downright affront, and publicly resented, if you invited a woman of quality to dinner, without, at the same time, inviting her two attendants of lover and husband, between whom she sits in state with great gravity.
עמוד 232 - It began with Jupiter's falling in love out of a peep-hole in the clouds, and ended with the birth of Hercules. But what was most pleasant, was the use Jupiter made of his metamorphosis; for you no sooner saw him under the figure of Amphitrion, but instead of flying to Alcmena with the raptures Mr.
עמוד 233 - ... make use of to fix their pails upon. This machine they cover with their own hair, -which they mix with a great deal of false, it being a particular beauty to have their heads too large to go into a moderate tub. Their hair is prodigiously powdered to conceal the mixture, and...
עמוד 232 - Amphitrion's taylor, and cheats him of a laced coat, and his banker of a bag of money, a Jew of a diamond ring, and bespeaks a great supper in his name; and the greatest part of the comedy turns upon poor Amphitrion's being tormented by these people for their debts. Mercury uses Sosia in the same manner.
עמוד 2 - There are, by the bye, no fuch things as curtains, and hardly, from Venice to Rome, that cleanly and moft ufeful invention, a privy; fo that what fhould be collected and buried in oblivion, is for ever under your nofe and eyes.
עמוד 74 - Agrippa added to the building, is undoubtedly very noble, though in my opinion it corresponds but ill with the simplicity of the edifice. With all my veneration for the ancients, I cannot see in what the beauty of the rotunda consists. It is no more than a plain unpierced cylinder, or circular wall, with two fillets and a cornice, having a vaulted roof or cupola, open in the centre.
עמוד 451 - Peter, being suspicious, ordered his physician to attend her, who soon made the discovery. It also appeared, that a sense of shame had triumphed over her humanity, and that the children had been put to death as soon as born. Peter...
עמוד 457 - I have more than once feen him ftop in the ftreets, to receive petitions from perfons who thought themfelves wronged by fentences pafled in courts of judicature. On taking the petition, the perfon was told to come next day to the fenate ; where the affair was immediately examined and determined, if the nature of it would admit its being done in fo fhort a time.
עמוד 82 - It must be owned, however, there are some exceptions to this general rule. The villa of Cardinal Alexander Albani is light, gay, and airy ; yet the rooms are too small, and too much decorated with carving and gilding, which is a kind of gingerbread work. The apartments of one of the princes...