The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz: Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia Thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &c. ... In Letters to His Friend : Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; But the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts ...

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Página 94 - Continuing the hypnosis still further, these sensitive strata become condensed into two poles of sensitivity, the one on the right and the other on the left of the patient.
Página 264 - Letter to her next day, wherein he told her, that he would have nothing more to do with her.
Página 248 - Elector hesitated a good while whether or no he should accept of the august dignity which was offered him, but for my part I fancy that the voyage to England was more the subject of the Council's deliberation than the question whether the crown should be accepted...
Página 55 - for twenty years ferioufly ftudied my religion, and have read " the books that treated of it with too much application to " be in any doubt as to my principles. You cannot mention " any thing to me but what I have read, and what you can fay " to me will certainly add nothing to my opinion.
Página 316 - ... all its might, was a position perfectly intolerable to them. After consulting together as to whether it were better to climb up a tree or clamber on a rock, they asked my permission to remain near the goat. This confidence pleased me, and obtained them the privilege of a place by my side. I had not been there a quarter of an hour when the lioness appeared ; she found herself suddenly beside the goat, and looked about her with an air of astonishment.
Página 250 - ... Sovereign. I was told there was only one Perfon, and that was a Woman, who refus'd to own him for King; and that this happen'd upon the very Day of the Coronation, when a Champion, arm'd from Head to Foot, entering into the...
Página 10 - This was owing to nothing more than the Refufal of the Prince of Orange, who was King of England, to give an Arm-Chair to the Elector in a Conference betwixt thofe two Princes at the Hague in 1695.
Página 287 - Advice of the Princes of the Blood, and of the Dukes and Peers.
Página 68 - Princefs fet out from thence fome days after with a Train becoming her prefent and her future Dignity. The Elector her Father had given her the...

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