 ... being, he said, what he had always practised when a young housekeeper, and in his opinion far superior in its results to any application of ice : and in the same spirit, whenever the weather was sufficiently genial, he voted for dining out of doors...  The Quarterly Review - Page 4511864Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 430 pages
...housekeeper, and in his opinion far superior in its results to any application of ice ; and, in the same spirit, whenever the weather was sufficiently genial,...amuse himself with likening the scene and the party to the closing act of one of those little French dramas where " Monsieur le Comle," and " Madame la Comtesse"... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 790 pages
...housekeeper, and in his opinion far superior in its results to any application of ice ; and in the same spirit, whenever the weather was sufficiently genial,...altogether, which at once got rid of the inconvenience ofivery small rooms, and made it natural and easy for the gentlemen to help the ladies, so that the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 578 pages
...to any application of ice ; and in the same apirit, whenever the weather was sufficiently geaisl, be voted for dining out of doors altogether, which at once got rid of the inconvenience of very small roomc, nnd made it natural and ' , \ for the gentlemen to help the ladies, so that the paucity of servants... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 594 pages
...to any application of ice ; and in the saoie spirit, whenever the weather was sufficiently geaial, he voted for dining out of doors altogether, which at once got rid of the inconvenience of very email roomc, and niado it natural and ea?y for the gentlemen to help the ladies, so that the paucity... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 580 pages
...ice ; nnd in the same spirit, whenever she weather was suffieiently genial, he VOted for dininp oat of doors altogether, which at once got rid of the inconvenience of very email rooms, and niado it natural and eosy for the gentlemen to own uld life- of La •• When cireumstances... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1839 - 420 pages
...housekeeper, and in his opinion far superior in its results to any application of ice ; and in the same spirit, whenever the weather was sufficiently genial,...amuse himself with likening the scene and the party to the closing act of one of those little French dramas, where ' Monsieur le Comte,' and ' Madame la Comtesse'... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1839 - 466 pages
...housekeeper, and in his opinion far superior in its results to any application of ice: and in the same spirit, whenever the weather was sufficiently genial,...so that the paucity of servants went for nothing.' — vol. v. pp. 123, 124. Surely all this is very beautiful; like a picture of Boccaccio : the ideal... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 458 pages
...housekeeper; and in his opinion far superior in its results to any application of ice ; and, in the same spirit, whenever the weather was sufficiently genial,...voted for dining out of doors altogether, which at at once got rid of the inconvenience of very small rooms, and made it natural and easy for the gentlemen... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 454 pages
...housekeeper ; and in his opinion far superior in its results to any application of ice ; and, in the same spirit, whenever the weather was sufficiently genial,...voted for dining out of doors altogether, which at at once got rid of the inconvenience of very small rooms, and made it natural and easy for the gentlemen... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pages
...in the same spirit, whenever the weather was sufficiently genial, he voted for dining out-of-doors altogether, which at once got rid of the inconvenience...amuse himself with likening the scene and the party to the closing act of one of those little French dramas, where ' Monsieur le Comte ' and ' Madame la Comtesse... | |
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