 | Robert A. Hunt, Yuksel A. Aslandogan - 2007 - 234 דפים
...the lady's surrounding, indicating the Grand Vizier's wife "guessed at my thoughts and told me that she was no longer of an age to spend either her time or money in superfluities; that her whole expense was in charity, and her employment in praying to God." Montagu's surprise was occasioned, perhaps,... | |
 | 1763 - 804 דפים
...very good woman, near fifty years old. I was furprized to obferve fo little magnificence in her houfe, the furniture being all very moderate ; and, except the habits and number of^her (laves, nothing about her appeared expenfive. She gueffed at my thoughts, and 'told me (he was... | |
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She guessed at my thoughts, and told me she was no longer of an age to spend either her time or money in superfluities ; that her whole expense was in charity, and her whole employment praying to God. There was no affectation in this speech ; both she... 
