| David Hume - 1819 - 368 páginas
...Pillows, said they, were thought meat only for women in childbed: as for servants, if they had any •beet above them it was well: for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides.—Tin; third thing... | |
| Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1821 - 304 páginas
...lodged as the lord of the town. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in child-hedi As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...they any under their bodies 'to keep them from the pricking straws that ran often through the canvas, and rased their hardened hides. The third thing... | |
| 1823 - 856 páginas
...thought -meet J.uv г Luxemburg С 275 ] LUX only for women in childbed ; as for servants, if they 1 had any sheet above them it was well ; for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from pricking .straws, that run oft through the canvas and their hardened hides. — The third thing they... | |
| David Hume - 1825 - 486 páginas
...head instead of a bolster. If it were so, that the father or the good man of the house had a mattrass or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest...they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas, and raised their hardened hides.—The third thing... | |
| Jehoshaphat Aspin - 1825 - 330 páginas
...Pillows,' said they, ' were thought meet only for women in childbed.' As for servants, if they had sheet above them, it was well ; for seldom had they any under their bodies, to keep them from the pricking straws, that ran oft through the canvass, and raced their hardened hides." — " In all the... | |
| David Hume - 1826 - 426 páginas
...head instead of a bolster. If it were so, that the rather or the goodman of the house had a matrass or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest...oft through the canvass, and razed their hardened hydes. — The third thing they tell of is, the exchange of treene platers (so called, I suppose, from... | |
| David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 420 páginas
...: so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in child bed : as for servants, if they had any sheet above them...they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and raised their hardened hides. — The third thing... | |
| Nicholas Carlisle - 1828 - 352 páginas
...for " women in childbed,—as for servants, if " they had any sheet above them it was " well,—for seldom had they any under " their bodies, to keep...them from the " prickling straws that ran oft through 28 A screen. * A rough coarse mantle. " the canvas, and razed ' their hardened " hides':— " The third... | |
| William Hone - 1828 - 468 páginas
...sayde they, were thoughte meete •nely for women in childbed. As for serants, if they had any sheete above them it was well ; for seldom had they any under their bodies to keepe them from the pricking strawes that ran oft thorow the canvass, and raced their hardened hides.*... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 572 páginas
...Iddged as the lord of the towne, that, peradventure, lay seldom in a. bed of down or whole feathers. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them...they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking strawes that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened hides.' The... | |
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