Travels Through Part of Europe, Asia Minor, the Islands of the Archipelago; Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mount Sinai, &c. ...L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1759 - 6 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 5 - ... and makes his way to the bed-chamber of his Sweetheart, who is already in her bed. After a compliment or two, he begs leave that he may pull off his upper garment^ and come upon the bed to her. This being of courfe granted, he lifts up the quilt or rug, lays himfelf under it, and then yuff/is, that is, chats with her 'till he thinks it time to depart, which is invariably done by the fame entrance he came in at. This...
الصفحة 5 - The spark comes into the house at night, either by the door, which is left upon the latch, or half open; by one of the windows; or through the stable; and makes his way to the bedchamber of his sweetheart, who is already in bed.
الصفحة 5 - ... till he thinks it time to de' part, which is invariably done by the fame entrance he came in at. This is a cuftom from which the natives will not foon depart: the parents thinking it equitable not to deny their children a freedom they themfelves were indulged in. Their innate tenacious pnrfimony alfo finds its account in this cuftom, which difpenfes with the articles of fire and candle in the long winter evenings and nights.
الصفحة 340 - ... water ; and, when I was swimming, I was obliged to keep my legs the greatest part of the time out of the water. My fellow-traveller was agreeably surprised to find that he could swim here, having never learned.
الصفحة 213 - Those belonging to the grand signor were exceeding splendid, and covered entirely with silk ; and one of them lined with a rich silk stuff, the right side of which was the apartment for the eunuchs. But even this was exceeded by another, which I was informed cost...
الصفحة 331 - Again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and fhcweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them ; and faith unto him, All thefe things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worfhip me.
الصفحة 122 - Road and ultimately join the other brigade in the attack on Jhansi. On the morning of the 16th, Sir Hugh Rose with the 2nd Brigade left Sehore, and after passing over a rich plateau they ascended...
الصفحة 295 - English company not long ago settled at Lernica, where they built a very stately and beautiful house. But the governor animated by the people, who were continually murmuring and complaining, that the house looked more like a fort than a private house, and that they did not know what bad designs might be on foot, ordered it to be pulled down to the very ground; which, as there was a manifest jealousy between the two houses, occasioned a surmise that the people had first been bribed by the consul to...
الصفحة 295 - The English consul's house here is the best on the whole island, though the outside of it is only of clay, but nothing can be more neat, or elegantly ornamented than the inside. It has also the largest hall I saw in any part of the Levant; but, what is of much more importance, the English consul is highly respected all over the island, as jointly with his company he advances money to the inhabitants, for getting in their several harvests, in which otherwise they would...