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" 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... "
London Society - Side 86
redigeret af - 1880
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A practical introduction to English composition on a new plan

John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 sider
...to the body politic (the State) , that exprcise does to the individual. Ex. 8.— LADY'S HEAD-DEESS. 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...
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Selections from Addison's papers contributed to the Spectator, ed. by T. Arnold

Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 sider
...now moderate ; Father Connectt ; good advice. Tanta est quaerendi cura decoris. JuT. Sat. vi. 500. 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...
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Selections from Addison's Papers Contributed to the Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 sider
...though now moderate; Father Connects; good advice. Tanta est quaerendi cura decoris. Juv. Sat. vi. 500. 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...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 sider
...display half the colours that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed. ADDISON. There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory, I have known it to rise and fall within thirty degrees. ADDISON. I would desire...
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History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Bind 2

Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 370 sider
...which had been in fashion in his time, he adds reflections which may moderate all such vanities — " There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot...
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History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Bind 2

Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 414 sider
...which had been in fashion in his time, he adds reflections which may moderate all such vanities — " There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot...
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The Red Rag. A Novel

Richard Mounteney Jephson - 1880 - 300 sider
...Lady Cecilia was having her hair dressed. Regarding the particular style of coiffure at that period my mind is steeped in an ignorance which is venial ;...is too much to expect from any chronicler except a Bos well or a Pepys. On the toilet-table, beside the glass, lay a letter as yet unopened, it having...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 sider
...display half the colours that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed. ADDISON. There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory, I have known it to rise and fall within thirty degrees. ADDISON. I would desire...
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Essays of Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison - 1882 - 428 sider
...their bodies : in the mean wt mend to their most serious conside of an old Greek poet, & Tponos, K' o THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress : within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 sider
...date. Addison had a great many arrows to his bow. At one time he ridicules ladies' head-dresses : " There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot...
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