 | 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 - 444 pages
...lodged as the lord of the " town; who, peradventure, lay seldom in a bed " of down or whole feathers. As for servants, if " they had any sheet above them,...from the pricking straws that ran oft through " the canvas of the pallet, and rased their hardened "hides." (p. 188.) The progress of improvement in building,... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 446 pages
...poorest country people. " town ; who, peradventure, lay seldom in a bed " of down or whole feathers. As for servants, if " they had any sheet above them,...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 of... | |
 | English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...the town ; who, peradventure, ' lay seldom in a bed of down or ' whole feathers. As for servant«, ' if they had any sheet above them, ' it was well ;...pricking straws ' that ran oft through the canvass ' of the pallet, and rased their ' hardened hides.' " The progress of improvement in building, was... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Africa - 1804 - 694 pages
...sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the lown, so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were...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
...a bolster. If it were so, that the father or the good-man of the house had a mattrass or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon,...pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides. — The third thing they tell of is, the exchange of Treene platers (so... | |
 | 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. IV. Notes, p. 4G2.... | |
 | 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... | |
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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 keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased... 
