Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M---y W---y M----e: Written, During Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction, ...P. Wilson, J. Hoey, Junior, and J. Potts, 1763 - 280 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 38
עמוד 3
... must expect a difinterested offer . I can write enough , in the ftile of Rotterdam , to tell you plainly , in one word , that I expect returns of all the London news . You fee I have already learn't to make a good bargain , and that it ...
... must expect a difinterested offer . I can write enough , in the ftile of Rotterdam , to tell you plainly , in one word , that I expect returns of all the London news . You fee I have already learn't to make a good bargain , and that it ...
עמוד 5
... must not conclude without begging your pardon , for not obeying your commands , in fending the lace you order- ed me . Upon my word I can yet find none , that is not dearer than you may buy it in Lon- don . If you want any India goods ...
... must not conclude without begging your pardon , for not obeying your commands , in fending the lace you order- ed me . Upon my word I can yet find none , that is not dearer than you may buy it in Lon- don . If you want any India goods ...
עמוד 7
... must not forget to take notice of the bridge , which appeared very furprizing to me . It is large enough to hold hundreds of men , with horfes and carriages . They give the value of an English two pence to get upon it , and then away ...
... must not forget to take notice of the bridge , which appeared very furprizing to me . It is large enough to hold hundreds of men , with horfes and carriages . They give the value of an English two pence to get upon it , and then away ...
עמוד 21
... must do them the justice to say , the good taste and magnificence of their tables very well anfwer to that of their furniture . I have been more than once entertained with fifty difhes of meat , all ferved in filver , and well dreffed ...
... must do them the justice to say , the good taste and magnificence of their tables very well anfwer to that of their furniture . I have been more than once entertained with fifty difhes of meat , all ferved in filver , and well dreffed ...
עמוד 28
... that touch the foul . When the fmiles , ' tis with a beauty and fweetnefs , that forces ado- ration . She has a vast quantity of fine fair hair ; but then her perfon ! -one must speak of of it poetically to do it rigid juftice ; all [ 28 ]
... that touch the foul . When the fmiles , ' tis with a beauty and fweetnefs , that forces ado- ration . She has a vast quantity of fine fair hair ; but then her perfon ! -one must speak of of it poetically to do it rigid juftice ; all [ 28 ]
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