Essays, political, economical and philosophical, Volumen1 |
Términos y frases comunes
abuſes affiftance alfo almoſt alms alſo Avoirdupois Bavaria beggars beſt boiled bread buſineſs cafe carried cauſe CHAP Chimney circumftances clothing coft commiffary confequence confiderable creutzers defcribed defire deftined diftributed diſtrict Duke of BAVARIA eafy eaſily eaſy effectually ELECTOR PALATINE employed eſtabliſhment expence fame ferved fervice fhall fhould fhow Fire-place firſt fituation fmall fociety foldiers fome Food foon forted wool foup fpinners ftill fubject fuccefs fuch fuet fufficient fums fupport furniſhed gratis greateſt happineſs houfe houſe of induſtry increaſed INDIAN PUDDING inftitution inhabitants intereſting labour lefs likewife lodgings manner manufactures meaſures adopted Military Work-houſe moft moſt muſt myſelf necef neceffary occafion perfons pleaſure poffible Poor at Munich potatoes pound prevent frauds profeffion public kitchen pudding purchaſed purpoſe quantity reaſonable received refpecting regiments relief render ſcheme ſmall ſpinners ſpinning ſtate ſtill ſtreets thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion town uſed wool yarn
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Página 63 - The kind usage they met with, and the comforts they enjoyed, seemed to have softened their hearts, and awakened in them sentiments as new and surprising to themselves as they were interesting to those about them. The melancholy gloom of misery...
Página 70 - ... by in the streets, upon being told that it was the poor of Munich, many hundreds in number, who were going in procession to the church to put up public prayers for me — public prayers for me! for a private person!
Página 177 - If a glutton can be made to gormandize two hours upon two ounces of meat, it is certainly much better for him than to give himself an indigestion by eating two pounds in the same...
Página 69 - I was dangerously ill ? that they went publicly in a body in procession to the cathedral church, where they had divine service performed, and put up public prayers for my recovery ? that four years afterwards, on hearing that I was again dangerously ill at Naples, they, of their own accord, set apart an hour each evening, after they had finished their work in the Military Workhouse, to pray for me ? Will...
Página 67 - ... of laying down his carriage ; — leaving the town ; — and retiring into the country upon a few hundreds a-year ; — than by the total ruin of the...
Página 65 - ... poor people. Whether it was, that those who saw them compared their present situation with the state of misery and wretchedness from which they had been taken, or whether it was the joy and exultation which...
Página 307 - The angle made by the back of the fire-place and the sides of it, or covings, should be 135 degrees, which is the best position they can have for throwing heat into the room.