Letters of Baron Bielfeld ...: Containing Original Anecdotes of the Prussian Court for the Last Twenty Years, المجلد 4

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الصفحة 176 - Englishman; but it has here a very different external appearance from what it has in France. We here see no hospitals where duchesses by the bedside of the sick give them their remedies on their knees.
الصفحة 176 - England 5 like a ball that is fent from one player to another. Befide, London during the cours of the whole year fwarms with ftrangers of every kind, among whom are many of...
الصفحة 64 - Englifh tragedy, the aftion of the performers appeared to me quite extravagant, and the found of their voices feemd in my ears like frightful howling? : and tho I llill fr»d-tb«if -manner in. .general outree, yet it does not mock me as at iril...
الصفحة 61 - The houfes, even thofe which are inhabited by the nobility, have externally but a mean appearance, and the fmoke of the coals gives them a black and...
الصفحة 177 - Englifh is not theologic, but philofophic ; it extends to thofe only who are incapable of labor, and not to the encouragement of idlenes.
الصفحة 74 - ... of an officer of the police, upon a public theatre, where they pay regularly to be admitted, and where the pit, and what is more, the boxes are filled with as good company as at an opera.
الصفحة 58 - Princesses Amelia, Caroline and Louisa eat also in private and admit none whatever to their table or even to be spectators of it. This life of perpetual retirement renders the court to the last degree spiritless.3 The King's children obviously found time on their hands.
الصفحة 9 - There is alfo fomething peculiar in his features. His large blue eyes are rather in a kind of relief than in the plane of his forehead. The nofe well defigned ; the mouth a little too large, and not very regularly formd.
الصفحة 11 - His minifters are then called in ; and he confers and labours with them in the affairs of government. He is a good king...
الصفحة 75 - He remaind in that itate for a fhort time, during which a ftranger, who was next me, crys out eagerly, Sir, I lay four guineas to your orange that this cock wins the balls.

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