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, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe ...T. Cadell, 1784 |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 48
עמוד vi
... most ingenious author has con- demned it to obfcurity during her life ; and conviction , as well as deference , obliges me to yield to her reasons . How- ever , if these Letters appear hereafter when I am in my grave , let this attend ...
... most ingenious author has con- demned it to obfcurity during her life ; and conviction , as well as deference , obliges me to yield to her reasons . How- ever , if these Letters appear hereafter when I am in my grave , let this attend ...
עמוד 5
... most celebrated gardens , but I will not teize you with their de- fcriptions . I dare fwear you thing my letter already long enough . But I must not conclude without begging your pardon , for not obeying your commands , in fending the ...
... most celebrated gardens , but I will not teize you with their de- fcriptions . I dare fwear you thing my letter already long enough . But I must not conclude without begging your pardon , for not obeying your commands , in fending the ...
עמוד 10
... most part of it is old built . The Jefuits ' church , which is the neateft , was fhewed me , in a very complaisant manner , by a handsome young Jefuit ; who , not knowing who I was , took a liberty in his compliments and railleries ...
... most part of it is old built . The Jefuits ' church , which is the neateft , was fhewed me , in a very complaisant manner , by a handsome young Jefuit ; who , not knowing who I was , took a liberty in his compliments and railleries ...
עמוד 17
... most alone on their affembly nights , than tọ recede one jot from their pretenfions . I have not been here above a week , and yet I have heard from almost every one of them , the whole hiftory of their wrongs , and dreadful VOL . I. C ...
... most alone on their affembly nights , than tọ recede one jot from their pretenfions . I have not been here above a week , and yet I have heard from almost every one of them , the whole hiftory of their wrongs , and dreadful VOL . I. C ...
עמוד 19
... most of them false ; though they tell you that many of the Croffes and Madonas fet round with these stones , have been the gifts of Emperors , and other great Princes . I don't doubt indeed but they were at firft jewels of value ; but ...
... most of them false ; though they tell you that many of the Croffes and Madonas fet round with these stones , have been the gifts of Emperors , and other great Princes . I don't doubt indeed but they were at firft jewels of value ; but ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 174 - Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries. There is no example of any one that has died in it; and you may believe I am well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son. I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this useful invention into fashion in England...
עמוד 175 - I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this useful invention into fashion in England; and I should not fail to write to some of our doctors very particularly about it, if I knew any one of them that I thought had virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of their revenue for the good of mankind. But that distemper is too beneficial to them, not to expose to all their resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it. Perhaps if I live to return, I may, however, have...
עמוד 190 - Vizier's ; and the very house confessed the difference between an old devotee and a young beauty. It was nicely clean and magnificent. I was met at the door by two black eunuchs, who led me through a long gallery between two ranks of beautiful young girls, with their hair finely plaited, almost hanging to their feet, all dressed in fine light damasks, brocaded with silver. I was sorry that decency did not permit me to stop to consider them nearer.
עמוד 173 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox.
עמוד 173 - ... has a mind to have the small-pox : they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together) the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what veins you please to have opened.
עמוד 27 - Tis certain that I may, if I please, take the fine things you say to me for wit and raillery; and, it may be, it would be taking them right. But I never, in my life, was half so well disposed to believe you in earnest as I am at present; and that distance, which makes the continuation of your friendship improbable, has very much increased my faith in it. I find that I have (as well as the rest of my sex), whatever face I set on't, a strong disposition to believe in miracles.
עמוד 192 - ... no court breeding could ever give. She ordered cushions to be given me, and took care to place me in the corner, which is the place of honour.
עמוד 174 - The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day, and are in perfect health to the eighth. Then the fever begins to seize them, and they keep their beds two days, very seldom three. They have very rarely above twenty or thirty in their faces, which never mark ; and in eight days' time, they are as well as before their illness.
עמוד 174 - ... are not superstitious, who choose to have them in the legs, or that part of the arm that is concealed. The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day, and are in perfect health to the eighth.
עמוד 124 - ... and then running on the floor in little channels made for that purpose, which carried the streams into the next room, something less than this, with the same sort of marble sofas, but so hot with...