THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's headdress : within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller... The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers - Página 107por Joseph Addison - 1893 - 193 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1729 - 342 páginas
...rife and fall above thirty Degees. About ten Years ago it fhot up to a very great Height, infomuch that the female Part of our Species were much taller than the Men. The Women were of fuch an enormous Stature, that we appeared as Grafsbuffers before them : At prefent the whole Sex is... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 páginas
...lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch...stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers before them f :' At present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed, and shrunk into a race of beauties that seems... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 páginas
...lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch...stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers before them f :' At present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed, and shrunk into a race of beauties that seems... | |
| 1803 - 466 páginas
...lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taJler than the men1. The women were of such an enormous stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers... | |
| 1805 - 664 páginas
...head-dress. Within my own memory (adds he) I have known it to rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part sf our species were much taller than the men. The women were of such an enormous stature (concludes... | |
| 1803 - 472 páginas
...to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men1. The women were of such an enormous stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers before them2 :' at present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed, and shrunk into a race of beauties that seems... | |
| 1804 - 676 páginas
...lady's head-drcis. Within my own memory, I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch...much taller than the men *. The women were of such an enormou? stature, that ' we appeared as grashoppers before them.' At present the whole sex is in a... | |
| 1805 - 654 páginas
...head-dress. VVithin my own memory (adds he) I have known it to rise an j fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch...the men. The women were of such an enormous stature (concludes the Spectator), (bat we appeared as grasshoppers before them.'' or tightness, actually produced... | |
| 1805 - 676 páginas
...head-dress. \Vithin my own memory (adds he) I have known it to rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch...species were much taller than the men. The women were of sueli an enormous stature (concludes the Spectator), that we appeared as grasshoppers before them.''... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 páginas
...lady's head-dress. Within my own memory, I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that t he female part of our species were much taller than the men *. The women were of such an enormous... | |
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