Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain: Giving a True and Just Description of the Present State of Those Countries, Their Natural, Literary and Political History, Manners, Laws, Commerce, Manufactures, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Coins, Antiquities, Curiosities of Art and Nature, &c. : Illustrated with Copper-plates Engraved from Drawings Taken on the Spot, Volume 4A. Linde and T. Field, 1757 - Europe |
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Page 267 - In the loweft, which looks like a calendar, are feveral circles, the firft of which (hews the days and months ; the fecond the golden number, with the age and change of the moon ; and the third the dominical letter. The fourth and fifth circles reprefent the ancient Roman calendar. On the fixth are the names of the apoftles and martyrs ; the length of the days and nights, and the entrance of the fun into the twelve figns of the Zodiac. The feventh and eighth circles exhibit the hours and minutes...
Page 286 - ... when he had been at Nancy, that the lacqueys of great men were a riotous, debauched, quarrelfome fort of people, frankly anfwered, " That he ' chofe rather to look after his ' herd, and continue to lead a quiet ' life in the wood, with which he ' was thoroughly fatisfied, than
Page 132 - Augustus, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, the father of his country, the Titus of his age, the delight of mankind. Therefore drink to the health of the sovereign, the country, the electoral family, and Baron Kyaw, Governor of Konigstein ; and if thou art able— according to the dignity of this cask, the most capacious of all casks — drink to the prosperity of the whole universe ! So, Farewell...
Page 284 - His thirft after knowledge appeared in his very childhood, and having no other means of gratifying it, he made a collection of fnakes, toads, &c.
Page 193 - OMNIANA says Keysler, as in some places is given to children instead of a coral when they cut their teeth) on which an Abbe is represented lying dead in a meadow, with three lilies growing out of his posteriors. This is not only the worst pun that ever was carved upon a wolf's tooth, but the worst that ever was or will be made. The Abbe" is designed to express the Latin word Habe.
Page 131 - Water, and in them feveral Kinds of Fifh, for the Governor's Ufe. The Water ufed by the Garrifon is drawn up by a Wheel from a Well, whofe Depth is nine hundred Drefden Ells. Forty Years were fpent in fmking this Well before a fufficient Quantity of Water could be obtained.
Page 177 - ... a sum of money to make them drink, but likewise to deliver up to them his running footman, whom, for the greater confirmation of their favourite privilege, they obliged to undergo the discipline of the pond. If these people are 25 thus severe against such as do not propagate their species in a lawful way, tho...
Page 26 - ... to keep them down. Within the baths are feats for the conveniency of fitting in the water, which can be railed or lowered at pleafure.
Page 258 - Their sharpen'd ends in earth their footing place, And the dry poles produce a living race. Some bow their vines, which buried in the plain, Their tops in distant arches rise again.
Page 176 - ... by the inhabitants, which is as follows : If a man has been married a year, Or fifteen months at...