 | English poets - 1801 - 444 Seiten
...feathers. 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 pricking straws that ran oft through " the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened "hides." (p. 188.) The progress of... | |
 | 1802 - 888 Seiten
...feathers. As for servant«, ' if they had any 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 ' of the pallet, and rased their ' hardened hides.' " The progress of improvement... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1804 - 694 Seiten
...child-bed. 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 pricking straws that ran through the canvas, and razed their hardened hides. " The third thing they tell of, is the exchange of wooden platters... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - 480 Seiten
...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 pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides. — The third thing they tell of is, the exchange... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 852 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn - 1814 - 380 Seiten
...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 pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas, and rased their hardened hides. The third thing they tell of, is the exchange... | |
 | David Hume - 1819 - 368 Seiten
...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 they tell of is, the exchange... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1821 - 304 Seiten
...child-hedi 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 pricking straws that ran often through the canvas, and rased their hardened hides. The third thing they tell off, is the exchange... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 Seiten
...off from our southerne parts. Pillowes (said they) were thought meet onelie for women in child bed. As for servants, if they had anie sheet above them it was well, for seldome had they anie under their bodies, to keepe them from the pricking straws that ran oft through... | |
 | Jehoshaphat Aspin - 1825 - 330 Seiten
...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 delineations of the English... | |
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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... 
