 | David Hume - 1789 - 438 pagina’s
...women in child- bed: As for fervants , if they had any fheet above them , it was well : For feldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking ftraws , that ran oft through the canvas , and razed their hardened hides The third thing they tell... | |
 | 1802 - 700 pagina’s
...feathers. ' ' As for fen-ants, if they had any fliert 4 above them, it •n'as well ; for leldom • had they any under their bodies, to • keep them from the pricking ftnrws ' that ran "oft through the carrvafs of « the pallet, and rafed their hardened « hides.* (T>.... | |
 | 1799 - 394 pagina’s
...for women in child-bed. As for fervants, if they had any fheet above them, it was well ; for feldom had they any under their bodies, to keep them from the pricking ftraws that ran through the canvas and their hardened hides. The third thing they tell of, is the exchange... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 444 pagina’s
...who, peradventure, lay seldom in a bed " of down or whole feathers. As for servants, if " they had any sheet above them, it was well ; for " seldom had they...from the pricking straws that ran oft through " the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened "hides." (p. 188.) The progress of improvement in building,... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 446 pagina’s
...who, peradventure, lay seldom in a bed " of down or whole feathers. As for servants, if " they had any sheet above them, it was well ; for " seldom had they...bodies, to keep " them from the pricking straws that ran ott through " the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened "hides." (p. 188.) The progress of... | |
 | 1802 - 888 pagina’s
...peradventure, ' lay seldom in a bed of down or ' whole feathers. As for servant«, ' if they had any sheet above them, ' it was well ; for seldom had they...pricking straws ' that ran oft through the canvass ' of the pallet, and rased their ' hardened hides.' " The progress of improvement in building, was... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1804 - 694 pagina’s
...Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in child-bed. As for servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well, for seldom had they...bodies, to keep them from the pricking straws that ran through the canvas, and razed their hardened hides. " The third thing they tell of, is the exchange... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - 480 pagina’s
...Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed : As for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well : For seldom had they...pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides. — The third thing they tell of is, the exchange of Treene platers (so... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 852 pagina’s
...women in childbed. As for servants, it they had any sheet above them, it waiwcll; for seldom they had any under their bodies, to keep them from the pricking straws, that ran oft through the canvas, and razed their hanir-.ni hides. — Sec Hume's History of England, Vol. IV. Notes, p. 4G2.... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - 362 pagina’s
...(said they) were thought meet only for women in childbed ; as for servants, if they had any sheets above them, it was well ; for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from pricking straws, that ran oft through the canvass and their hardened hides. The third thing they tell... | |
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... as well lodged as the lord of the town : So well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only 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... 
