 | Helen Maria Williams - 1798 - 378 pages
...wants the eafe of a tavern, where tumult is miftaken l for for gaiety, and familiarity for friendmip. But while in other places the tafte for clubs is confined...hour of fupper before they have faid one word on any f abject pf tafte, or literature. The ladies of Bafil, abandoned by the men, have recourfe to clubs... | |
 | 1798 - 554 pages
...perfons, Bafil is a town of clubbifts, containing no lefs than twelve fmoking focieties, each eompofed of about fixty members, who meet every afternoon at...commercial affairs of the town, calculate the gains and lodes of the day, form new tchemes ot acquiring wealth, and feparate at the hour of fupper before they... | |
 | 1798 - 484 pages
...perlons, Bafil is a town of clubbifts, containing no ]efs than twelve fmoking focieties, each competed of about fixty members, who meet every afternoon at an early hour, drink tea amidlt lh« exhilarating fumes of tobacco, difcufs the political fituation, but far more indefatigably... | |
 | John Adams - 1816 - 352 pages
...hour, drink tea amidst the exhilarating fumes of tobacco, discuss the political situation, but tar more indefatigably, the commercial affairs of the town, calculate the gains and losses of the day, form new schemes of acquiring wealth ; and separate at the hour of supper, before... | |
 | Lionel Gossman - 2000 - 640 pages
...afternoon, "they drink tea amid the exhilarating fumes of tobacco, discuss the political situation, but far more indefatigably the commercial affairs of the town, calculate the gains and losses of the day, form new schemes of acquiring wealth, and separate at the hour of supper, before... | |
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Bafil is a town of clubbifts, containing no lefs than twelve fmoking focieties, each compofed of about fixty members, who meet every afternoon at an early hour, drink tea amidft the exhilarating fumes of tobacco, difcufs the political fituation,. but... 