 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 up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much...  Public Characters - Էջ 3911805Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1729 - 342 էջ
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 էջ
...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...men *. The women were of such an enormous stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers before them f :' At present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 էջ
...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...men *. The women were of such an enormous stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers before them f :' At present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed,... | |
 | 1803 - 466 էջ
...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...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... | |
 | 1804 - 676 էջ
...so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-drcis. Within my own memory, I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it...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 - 676 էջ
...thiog in nature as a lady's head-dress. \Vithin my own memory (adds he) I have known it to rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it...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 էջ
...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 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 էջ
...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...the men. The women were of such an enormous stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers before them :' at present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 էջ
...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...the men. The women were of such an enormous stature, that c we appeared as grasshoppers before them :' at present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 էջ
...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...the men. The women were of such an enormous stature, that we appeared as grasshoppers before them. At present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed, and... | |
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