Letters of M--y W--y M--e: written during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to persons of distinction, men of letters, etc., in different parts of Europe. Which contain, among other curious relations, accounts of the policy and manners of the Turks, Volumen1M. Cooper, 1779 |
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... of glafs amongst . these relicks . They fhewed me a prodigious claw fet in gold , which they called the claw of a griffin ; and I could not forbear asking the the reverend prieft that fhewed it , Whether the griffin 20 LETTER S.
... of glafs amongst . these relicks . They fhewed me a prodigious claw fet in gold , which they called the claw of a griffin ; and I could not forbear asking the the reverend prieft that fhewed it , Whether the griffin 20 LETTER S.
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... gold lace or embroidery . All this is made gay by pic- tures , and vast jars of japan china , and large luftres of rock chrystal . I have al- ready had the honour of being invited to dinner by feveral of the first people of qua- lity ...
... gold lace or embroidery . All this is made gay by pic- tures , and vast jars of japan china , and large luftres of rock chrystal . I have al- ready had the honour of being invited to dinner by feveral of the first people of qua- lity ...
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... ; and befides , I took with me a lady , that had the goodness to explain to me every word . The way is , to take a box , which holds four , for yourfelf and com- pany . pany . The fixed price is a gold ducat . 30 LETTER S.
... ; and befides , I took with me a lady , that had the goodness to explain to me every word . The way is , to take a box , which holds four , for yourfelf and com- pany . pany . The fixed price is a gold ducat . 30 LETTER S.
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... gold ducat . I thought the house very low and dark ; but I confefs , the comedy admirably recompenfed that defect . I never laughed fo much in my life . It began with Jupiter's falling in love out of a peep - hole in the clouds , and ...
... gold ducat . I thought the house very low and dark ; but I confefs , the comedy admirably recompenfed that defect . I never laughed fo much in my life . It began with Jupiter's falling in love out of a peep - hole in the clouds , and ...
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... gold keys by their fides ; but what I find most pleasant , is the custom , which obliges them as long as they live , after they have left the empress's fer- vice , to make her fome prefent every year on the day of her feast . Her ...
... gold keys by their fides ; but what I find most pleasant , is the custom , which obliges them as long as they live , after they have left the empress's fer- vice , to make her fome prefent every year on the day of her feast . Her ...
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Página 181 - 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.
Página 183 - 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...
Página 133 - I was at last forced to open my shirt, and shew them my stays ; which satisfied them very well ; for, I saw, they believed I was locked up in that machine, and that it was not in my own power to open it, which contrivance they attributed to my husband.
Página 202 - Her fair maids were ranged below the sofa, to the number of twenty, and put me in mind of the pictures of the ancient nymphs. I did not think all nature could have furnished such a scene of beauty.
Página 28 - 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.
Página 198 - 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.
Página 182 - 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.
Página 200 - I was so struck with admiration, that I could not for some time speak to her, being wholly taken up in gazing. That...
Página 130 - ... clothes on. The two other domes were the hot baths, one of which had cocks of cold water turning into it, to temper it to what degree of warmth the bathers have a mind to.
Página 182 - ... 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.