Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e: Written During Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, ...Theophilus Barrois junior, 1790 - 311 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 38
עמוד 2
... dresses ( every woman dressing her head after her own fashion ) is an additional pleasure in seeing the town . You see , hitherto , I make no complaints , dear sister , and , ifI continue to like travelling as well as I do at present ...
... dresses ( every woman dressing her head after her own fashion ) is an additional pleasure in seeing the town . You see , hitherto , I make no complaints , dear sister , and , ifI continue to like travelling as well as I do at present ...
עמוד 9
... dress , with tarnished silver - laced shoes , a ragged under - petticoat , a miserable mixture of vice and poverty . They have sumptuary laws in this town , which distinguish their rank by their dress , prevent the excess which ruins so ...
... dress , with tarnished silver - laced shoes , a ragged under - petticoat , a miserable mixture of vice and poverty . They have sumptuary laws in this town , which distinguish their rank by their dress , prevent the excess which ruins so ...
עמוד 21
... dress very inconvenient , but which certainly shows the neck and shape to great advantage . I cannot forbear giving you some description of the fashions here , which are more monstrous and contrary to all com- mon sense and reason ...
... dress very inconvenient , but which certainly shows the neck and shape to great advantage . I cannot forbear giving you some description of the fashions here , which are more monstrous and contrary to all com- mon sense and reason ...
עמוד 22
... dress sets off and improves the natural ugliness , with which God Almighty has been pleased to endow them , generally speaking . Even the lovely Empress herself is obliged to comply , in some degree , with these absurd fashions , which ...
... dress sets off and improves the natural ugliness , with which God Almighty has been pleased to endow them , generally speaking . Even the lovely Empress herself is obliged to comply , in some degree , with these absurd fashions , which ...
עמוד 34
... dress agrees with the French or English in no one article , but wearing petticoats . They have many fashions peculiar to them- selves ; they think it indecent for a widow ever to wear green or rose colour , but all the other gayest ...
... dress agrees with the French or English in no one article , but wearing petticoats . They have many fashions peculiar to them- selves ; they think it indecent for a widow ever to wear green or rose colour , but all the other gayest ...
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