| David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 438 pages
...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... | |
| Great Britain - 1802 - 700 pages
...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>.... | |
| Universalism - 1799 - 394 pages
...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 - 446 pages
...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 any...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... | |
| English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...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 '...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 - Africa - 1804 - 694 pages
...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 any under...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 - Great Britain - 1807 - 480 pages
...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...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... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - Hygiene - 1807 - 852 pages
...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.... | |
| Charles Buck - Children - 1808 - 374 pages
...(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... | |
| Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 362 pages
...(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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