 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1774 - 540 pages
...marriage could purchafe a flock-bed, and a fack of chaff to reft his •head upon, he thought himfelf as well lodged as the lord of the town ; who peradventure lay feldom on a bed entirely of feathers. Another thing they remarked, was change of houfehold- veflel... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1775 - 280 pages
...marriage could purchafe a flock-bed, and a fack of chaff to reft his head upon, he thought himfelf as well lodged as the lord of the town ;who, peradventure, lay feldomon a bed entirely of feathers. Another thing they remarked, was change of houfhold vefiel from... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1778 - 484 pages
...marriage could pure ha fe a flock- bed, and. a fack of chaffto reft his head upon, he thought himfelf as well lodged as the lord of the town ; who peradventure lay feldom on a bed entirely of feathers. Another thing they remarked, was change of houfehold-veffel from... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 444 pages
...mattress or flock bed, and thereto a " sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought " himself to be as well 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, it was well... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 446 pages
...house, " had, within seven years after his marriage, pur" chased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a " sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought " himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the * bag. Sax. (from whence daggle or draggle), any thing pendent,... | |
 | English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...house, had, with' in seven years after his marringe, ' purchased a mattress or flock bed, ' and thereto a sack of chaff to rest ' his head upon, he thought himself ' to be as well lodged as the lord of ' the town ; who, peradventure, ' lay seldom in a bed of down... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Africa - 1804 - 694 pages
...it were so that our fathers, or the good man of the house, had a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a 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... | |
 | Ely Bates - Christian ethics - 1806 - 445 pages
...it were so that the father, or the good man of the house, had a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town : so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1807 - 534 pages
...marriage could purchafe a flock-bed, and a fack of chaff to reft his head upon, he thought himfelf as well lodged as the lord of the town ;' who peradventure lay feldom on a bed entirely of feathers. Another thing they remarked, was change of houfehold-veflels... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 480 pages
...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, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town : So well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were... | |
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... and thereto a 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 thought meet only for women in child-bed. 
