Letters and Journals of Mrs. Calderwood of Polton from England, Holland and the Low Countries in 1756D. Douglas, 1884 - 386 σελίδες |
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Letters and Journals of Mrs. Calderwood of Polton from England, Holland and ... Margaret Steuart Calderwood Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1884 |
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Σελίδα vi - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me,—that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see.
Σελίδα 188 - ... to them, like so many owls, they were the keenest dancers and the worst at it ever was. After the company had looked with wonder at their dancing for severall nights, and the men had begun to shun dancing with them, (for they always asked them,) Lady Hellen and Lord Garless danced a strathspey minuet ; whenever the Jews saw that they fell to it, they lap, they flaghtered so like hens with their feet tied together, that you might have bound the whole company with a straw, and they were delighted.
Σελίδα xxx - What need," said Sir James," of so much butchery and dismembering? Has not heading and publickly affixing the head been thought sufficient for the most atrocious state crimes hitherto ? We are embroyled and have taken sydes, but to insult too much over the mislead is unmanly.
Σελίδα 217 - how they call the wemen-servants here, but they call us men dumlaticks.' " ' Troth,' says I, ' you are really well named at present.' " However, John was very happy, for there were many Scots and English dumbsticks there with whom he made merry. . . . Then comes Peggie Rainy. " ' O sir ! ' says she, ' I was learning French with Mr Hair and Mr Line, and you laught me out of [it]. I would have been a fine speaker if it had not been for you, but you said I was too old, and now I'm older and will never...
Σελίδα 12 - ... for strangers to roar and bully, for I found, when I spoke softly, they had all the appearance of being deaf. I think the cathedrall of Durham is the most ridiculous piece of expence I saw, to keep up such a pagentry of idle fellows in a country place, where there is no body either to see or join with them, for there was not place for above fifty folks besides the performers.
Σελίδα 31 - They were very surly, and one of them asked me where I would be, would I have my toes trode off? "Is your toes trode off?" said I. " No," said he. " Then give me your place, and I'll take care of my toes." "But they are going to fire," said he. "Then it's time for you to march off," said I;
Σελίδα 10 - I did not observe one cow or ox all black or all red on the whole road, nor one black sheep or lamb. It is commonly thought with us that the white cattell are neither so good nor so hardy as the black, but I found a great number quite white, and in seven calfs there would be three white. I admired the cattel much more than the people, for they seem to have the least of what we call smartness of any folks I ever saw, and totally void of all sort of curiosity, which perhaps some may think a good quality....
Σελίδα 19 - Then the export they make of their victuall is a presumption they have not inhabitants to consume it in the country, for, by the common calculation, there are seven millions and one half in England, and the ground in the kingdom is twenty-eight millions of aikers, which is four aikers to each person. Take into this the immense quantity of horses which are keept for no real use all over the kingdom, and it will be found, I think, that England could maintain many more people than are in it. Besides,...
Σελίδα 32 - As for their victualls they make such a work about, I cannot enter into the taste of [them] ; or rather, I think, they have no taste to enter into. The meat is juicy enough, but has so little taste, that if [you] shut your eyes, you will not know by either taste or smell what you arc eating.
Σελίδα 14 - ... where there is no dounhill road; for, if this carriage was put off its ballance in comeing doun, it would crush the horses, or, if going up, it would lift them up in the air. It is surprizing how much nonsense I have heard spoken by folks who would introduce English customs into Scotland, without considering the difference of the two countrys : I must own I saw very little new to me, but what I could plainly see was calculated for the particular situation of the country, and could never answer...