The midwife: or, The old woman's magazine, Band 2Pr. for T. Carnan, 1751 |
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Seite 52 - Caora are a nation of people whose heads appear not above their shoulders, which though it may be thought a mere fable, yet for mine own part I am resolved it is true, because every child in the provinces of Arromaia and Canuri affirm the same. They are called Ewaipanoma. They are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and that a long train of hair groweth backward between their shoulders.
Seite 277 - On rich and poor, on friend and foe. Her doors to all were open'd wide, The pilgrim there might safe abide: For th...
Seite 265 - They were placed in a chamber adjoining to that in which the dead body was laid, and out of which it had been removed. They could only allow one bed for them both, all the others being engaged ; but as the weather was cold, and they were friends, they made no difficulty of lying together. In the middle of the night, one of the two not being able to sleep, arose, in order to amuse himself in the kitchen, where he heard some people talking.
Seite 104 - In winter, the life of the polite and gay may be faid to roll on with a ftrong and rapid current ; they float along from pleafure to pleafure, without the trouble of regulating their own motions, and purfue the courfe of the ftream in all the felicity of inattention ; content that they find themfelves in progreffion, and carelefs whither they are going.
Seite 107 - From the tedioufnefs of this melancholy fufpenfion of life, I would willingly preferve thofe who are expofed to it, only by inexperience ; who want not inclination to wifdom or virtue, though they have been diffipated by negligence, or mifled by example ; and who would gladly find the way to rational happinefs, though it fhould be neceflary to ftruggle with habit, and abandon fafhion.
Seite 85 - Retire, and enjoy thy riches in fordid oftentation ; thou waft born to be wealthy, but never canft be great. He then contracted his defires to more private and domeftick pleafures. He built palaces, he laid out gardens, he changed the face of the land, he...
Seite 106 - Platonifts imagine, that the future punifhment of thofe who have in this life debafed their reafon by fubje&ion to their fenfes, and have preferred the grofs gratifications of lewdnefs and luxury, to the pure and fublime felicity of virtue and contemplation, will arife from the predominance and folicitations of the fame appetites, in a ftate which can furnifh no means of appeafing them.
Seite 277 - Industry and Art, At length so well had play'd his part; He heap'd up such an ample store, That...
Seite 67 - Giles ; her old ragged garb was exchanged for one that was new and genteel ; her greatest enemies made their court to her, even the justice himself came to wish her joy ; and though several hogs and horses died, and the wind frequently blew afterwards, yet Madam Giles was never supposed to have a hand in it ; and from hence it is plain, as I observed before, that a woman must be very poor, very old, and live in a neighbourhood where the people are very stupid, before she can possibly pass for a witch.
Seite 158 - Whatever is the remote or ultimate defign, the immediate care is to be rich; and in whatever enjoyment we intend finally to acquiefce, we feldom confider it as attainable but by the means of money.