 | Robert Southey - 1862 - 760 דפים
...burnt in the forehead with a hot iron, when they are proved the authors of any notorious falsehoods. How many white foreheads should we see disfigured,...their eyebrows, were this law in practice with us!" But who can expect that human laws should correct that propensity in the wicked tongue! They who have... | |
 | lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1865 - 278 דפים
...burnt in the forehead with a hot iron when they are proved the authors of any notorious falsehoods. How many white foreheads should we see disfigured...parts of justice, but I must send for my midwife. LETTER XXXIX. ®o tfyi Cojtnttss of $$(ar. (Peru, of Constantinople, Jtfarah 1C, O. 8. 1717. I HAVE... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1876 - 628 דפים
...with a hot iron, when proved to be the authors of any notorious falsehood. " How many white forehead; should we see disfigured, how many fine gentlemen...their eyebrows, were this law in practice with us ! " By the laws of Alfred the Great, any one who broached a publie falsehood, and persisted in it,... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1887 - 574 דפים
...burnt in this manner about a fortnight ago, and I have seen several of the owners since, who seemed not at all moved at so common a misfortune. They put...[MAR], Pera of Constantinople, March 10, OS [1718]. I HATE not written to you, dear sister, these many months : — a great piece of self-denial. But I know... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1892 - 342 דפים
...study, the year 1717 passed away pleasantly. The terrors of an English winter were unknown at Pera. " The climate is delightful in the extremest degree....their eyebrows, were this law in practice with us I" Early in 1718 was born Lady Mary's daughter Mary, afterwards Countess of Bute. By this time her husband... | |
 | Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1894 - 376 דפים
...(triumphant criminals in our country, God knows) ; they are burnt on the forehead with a hot iron. How many white foreheads should we see disfigured...as their eyebrows were this law in practice with us ! " Soon after this letter was written Lady Mary's daughter * was born, at Pera. This she describes... | |
 | Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1894 - 374 דפים
...(triumphant criminals in our country, God knows) ; they are burnt on the forehead with a hot iron. How many white foreheads should we see disfigured...forced to wear their wigs as low as their eyebrows were th1s law in practice with us ! " Soon after this letter was written Lady Mary's daughter * was born,... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 1076 דפים
...absolute monarch upon earth, who owns no law but his will." Yet Lady Montagu expresses herself as " charmed with many points of the Turkish law, to our...their eyebrows, were this law in practice with us ! " This admirable method would have delighted the heart of Thomas Carlyle, and if ever applied in... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 דפים
...climate is delightful in the extremes! degree. I am now sitting, this present fourth of January [1718], with the windows open, enjoying the warm shine of...their eyebrows, were this law in practice with us 1 Theology, which had taken so prominent a place in the literature of the seventeenth century, fell... | |
 | 1903
...climate is delightful in the extremest degree. I am now sitting, this present fourth of January [1718], with the windows open, enjoying the warm shine of...their eyebrows, were this law in practice with us ! Theology, which had taken so prominent a place in the literature of the seventeenth century, fell... | |
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How many white foreheads should we see disfigured, how many fine gentlemen would be forced to wear their wigs as low as their eyebrows, were this law in practice with us ! I should go on to tell you many other parts of justice, but I must send for my... 
