A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany:: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters, Tom 2A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1786 |
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Strona 119 - I imagined at firft, that the man had got a few of the King's old clothes, and kept them here to amufe ftrangers ; but, upon...
Strona 64 - Fofle, and contains a great number of apartments. The walls of every room are hung with prints, from the roof to within two feet of the floor. Perhaps there is not fo complete a collection of framed ones in any private houfe or palace in the world. While Prince Ferdinand played at Billiards with the...
Strona 20 - ... or fuperior rank to himfelf : For all etiquette of this nature is waved even in Germany at the Tables d'Hotes. A knowledge of the characters of men, as they appear varied in different fituations and countries — the ftudy of...
Strona 371 - Some few of the prifoners in the narrow paffage who were of a fmall fize, and uncomuncommon addrefs, crawled under the rail, and got into the broad walk in the middle ; but all who were tall, and of a larger make, were obliged to remain and fubmit to their fate. An Englifhman, who had been at the Countefs Walftein's when the Emperor exprefled himfelf as above mentioned, was of the laft clafs. The Emperor, as he...
Strona 232 - His look announces spirit and penetration. He has fine blue eyes; and, in my opinion, his countenance, upon the whole, is agreeable. Some who have seen him are of a different opinion ; all who judge from his portraits only must be so ; for although I have seen many which have a little resemblance to him, and some which have a great deal, yet none of them do him justice.
Strona 119 - The whole wardrobe consisted of two blue coats, faced with red, the lining of one a little torn ; — two yellow waistcoats, a good deal soiled with Spanish snuff; — three pair of yellow breeches, and a suit of blue velvet, embroidered with silver, for grand occasions.
Strona 368 - I have the ill fortune to be an Emperor, I fhould be deprived of the pleafures of focial life, which are fo much to my tafte. All the grimace and parade to which people in my fituation are accuftomed from their cradle, have not made me fo vain, as to imagine that I am in any...
Strona 242 - ... from theirs who contribute to his amusement. A man who performs the duty of his office with alertness and fidelity, has nothing to apprehend from the king's being fond of the company and conversation of his enemy. Let the one be regaled at the king's table every day, while the other never receives a...
Strona 200 - ... raifed, and from it the recruits continue to be taken ; and each particular regiment is always quartered, in the time of peace, near the canton from which its recruits are drawn. Whatever number of fons a peafant may have, they are all liable to be taken into the fervice except one, who is left to affift in the management of the farm. The reft wear badges from their childhood, to mark that they are deftined to be foldiers, and ready to ferve when the ftate requires them.
Strona 237 - Sans-Souci ; and thofe two were then of his party almoft every day. The Count has now left this Court ; the Abbe has an apartment in the Palace. He is an Italian by birth, a man of wit, and an excellent companion. At table, the King likes that every perfon fhould appear to be on a footing, and that the conversation fhould be carried on with perfect freedom.