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... France however we may still trace a remnant of the time when the highest honour was awarded to the pliers of the heaviest tools , or the workmen whose vocation had a spice of peril in it . Thus the farrier smith , in France , still ...
... France however we may still trace a remnant of the time when the highest honour was awarded to the pliers of the heaviest tools , or the workmen whose vocation had a spice of peril in it . Thus the farrier smith , in France , still ...
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... which England received laws of fashion from France is seen in the circumstance that even before the Conquest the English imported the " mode " from beyond Channel , and universally adopted it . This ADONIS AT HOME AND ABROAD . 29.
... which England received laws of fashion from France is seen in the circumstance that even before the Conquest the English imported the " mode " from beyond Channel , and universally adopted it . This ADONIS AT HOME AND ABROAD . 29.
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... France , and English nan- keens threatened to drive all French manufactured articles of summer wear out of the market . The king however surmounted the difficulty : he ordered all the executioners and their assistants to perform their ...
... France , and English nan- keens threatened to drive all French manufactured articles of summer wear out of the market . The king however surmounted the difficulty : he ordered all the executioners and their assistants to perform their ...
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... France . When half a mile from Amiens , he met a coach and four with an equipage of French , and a lady in pea- green and silver , a smart hat and feather , and two suivantes . " My reason told me , " says the lively Horace , " it was ...
... France . When half a mile from Amiens , he met a coach and four with an equipage of French , and a lady in pea- green and silver , a smart hat and feather , and two suivantes . " My reason told me , " says the lively Horace , " it was ...
Page 85
... he , " the best - dressed people out of France , and if they could but acknowledge my principles , I would myself furnish them with paletots ; but they denounce my tyranny , and laugh at me when THREE ACTS AND AN EPILOGUE . 85.
... he , " the best - dressed people out of France , and if they could but acknowledge my principles , I would myself furnish them with paletots ; but they denounce my tyranny , and laugh at me when THREE ACTS AND AN EPILOGUE . 85.
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Page 180 - If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not...
Page 5 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile, she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 389 - ... point to die : even from my youth up thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind. 16 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me : and the fear of thee hath undone me.
Page 409 - We sacrifice to dress, till household joys And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires; And introduces hunger, frost, and woe, Where peace and hospitality might reign.
Page 18 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue : and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Page 22 - The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea...
Page 33 - I have not seen a dapper Jack so brisk : He wears a short Italian hooded cloak, Larded with pearl, and in his Tuscan cap A jewel of more value than the crown.
Page 103 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a Marchioness ; instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Page 398 - Lady Mary Wortley is arrived; I have seen her; I think her avarice, her dirt, and her vivacity, are all increased. Her dress, like her languages, is a galimatias of several countries; the ground-work rags, and the embroidery nastiness. She needs no cap, no handkerchief, no gown, no petticoat, no shoes. An old black-laced hood represents the first, the fur of a horseman's coat, which replaces the third, serves for the second ; a dimity petticoat is deputy, and officiates for the fourth, and slippers...
Page 17 - And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats