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Page 177 - Ship called the whereof is Master for this present Voyage and now riding at Anchor in the and bound for to say being marked and numbered as in the Margin, and are to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned at the aforesaid Port...
Page 178 - In witness whereof the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to three bills of lading, all of this tenor and date, the one of which three bills being accomplished, the other two to stand void, and so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen.
Page 164 - they not only universally go in them, but wear them ; that is, everything is to be en cabriolet ; the men paint them on their waistcoats, and have them embroidered for clocks to their stockings ; and the women, who have gone all the winter without anything on their heads, are now muffled up in great caps, with round sides, in the form of, and scarce less than the wheels of chaises.
Page 160 - A few days before, one of his friends standing by him, said, " Which of us is tallest ?" He replied, " Why this ceremony ? I know what it means ; let the man come and measure me for my coffin.
Page 79 - I think on all others, for you say such extravagant things of my letters, which are nothing but gossiping gazettes, that I cannot bear it Then you have undone yourself with me, for you compare them to Madame Sevigne's ; absolute treason ! Do you know, there is scarce a book in the world I love so much as her letters...
Page 84 - You will hear little news from England, but of robberies ; ' the numbers of disbanded soldiers and sailors have all taken to the road, or rather to the street : people are almost afraid of stirring after it is dark.
Page 83 - Park, and the pistol of one of them going off accidentally, grazed the skin under my eye, left some marks of shot on my face, and stunned me. The ball went through the top of the chariot ; and if I had sat an inch nearer to the left side, must have gone through my head.
Page 243 - Chirurgeons cause the sick to be brought or led up to the throne, where they kneeling, the King strokes their faces or cheekes with both his hands at once, at which instant a Chaplaine in his formalities says, ' He put his hands upon them and he healed them.
Page 243 - Majesty sitting under his state in the banqueting house, the chirurgeons cause the sick to be brought, or led, up to the throne, where they kneeling...
Page 8 - This is the curse of life ! that not A nobler, calmer train Of wiser thoughts and feelings blot Our passions from our brain; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must And not because we will.