 | Edmund Burke - 1779 - 750 pages
...them: and it is now cuftomary, not only to think it fufficient, if fome domeilics be fent to thefe perfons, to enquire of them any particular news, but...long ablutions before he can be admitted to deliver theanfwer. How dedicate thefe men are ! and yet, it you invite them to a feaft, or offer them money,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1788 - 638 pages
...them: and it is now culromary, not only to think it fufficient, if fome domeflics be fent to thefe perfons to enquire of them any particular news, but...can be admitted to deliver the anfwer. How delicate thefe men are ! and yet, if you invite them to a feaft, or offer them money, they will rtin for you,... | |
 | 1788 - 642 pages
...with them : and it is now cuftomary, not only to think it fuflkient, if fome domeuics be fent to thefe perfons, to enquire of them any particular news, but...ablutions before he can be admitted to deliver the anfwer. Ho\v delicate thefe men are ! and yet, if you invite them to a feaft, or offer them money, they will... | |
 | 1788 - 638 pages
...fent to thefe регт fons, to enquire of them any particular news, but to oblige the mef» fenger to go through long ablutions before he can be admitted to deliver the anfwer. Hovv delicate thefe men are ! and yet, if you invite them to a fead, or offer them money, they will... | |
 | François Jean marquis de Chastellux - 1792 - 504 pages
...them : and it is now cnftomary, not only to think it fufficient, ~ if fame domeftics he fent to thefe- perfons, to enquire of them any particular news, but to oblige the mejfenger to go through long ablutions before be can he admitted*, to deliver the anfwer. How delicate... | |
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Ho\v delicate thefe men are ! and yet, if you invite them to a feaft, or offer them money, they will run for you, even to Spoletum. Such are the manners of the nobility: as to the common people, they generally fpend the night in drinking houfes, or even... 