| Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 568 pages
...with her petticoat, instead of a pair of bellows, is a dilatory way. I believe you would willingly know (being an Englishman) what I had to eat. My fare...that passed till I mounted on horseback ; only, for want of something more proper for breakfast, I took up with a little brandy, water, sugar, and yolks... | |
| Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 436 pages
...rising early, and getting out of my box pretty hastily, I unluckily set my foot in the chamberpot—a hole in the ground by the bed-side, which was made...that passed till I mounted on horseback ; only, for want of something more proper for breakfast, I took up with a little brandy, water, sugar, and yolks... | |
| Robert Craig Maclagan - Evil eye - 1902 - 248 pages
...if we accept Burt's statement, in Highland houses, and even in a recognised house of entertainment. "But I had like to have forgot a Mischance that happened...Bed-side, which was made to serve for that Use in case of Occasion."1 When the next bottle reached the house and not the ground, the effect was quite satisfactory.... | |
| Robert Craig Maclagan - Evil eye - 1902 - 248 pages
...we accept Hurt's statement, in Highland houses, and even in a recognised house of entertainment. " But I had like to have forgot a Mischance that happened...Bed-side, which was made to serve for that Use in case of Occasion."1 When the next bottle reached the house and not the ground, the effect was quite satisfactory.... | |
| Robert Craig Maclagan - Religion - 1909 - 252 pages
...5440. * Ibid., EMK, 2621. 3 2167. 4 Ibid., 3872. 6 Ibid., 8532. « Ibid., 5936. 7 " I unluckily set ray Foot in the Chamber-Pot, a Hole in the Ground by the...was made to serve for that Use in case of Occasion. Burt's Letters, No. xvii. vol. ii. p. 65. standing that the addition of salt, or salt and fire to excrement,... | |
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