 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 taller...  New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 191redigeeritud poolt - 1854Full view - About this book
 | 1870 - 846 lehte
...de;rees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very -;reat height, insomuch that the female part of iur species were much taller than the men. The women were of such enormous stature that men appeared as grasshoppers before them. At iresent the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed .nd shrunk... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1846 - 512 lehte
...animadversion. " Within my own memory," says one of them, " I have known a lady's head-dress rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot...were much taller than the men. The women were of such an enormous stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers before them.'" Further on we find : " Women... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1846 - 508 lehte
...animadversion. " Within my own memory," says one of them, " I have known a lady's head-dress rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot...were much taller than the men. The women were of such an enormous stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers before them.'" Further on we find : " Women... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 638 lehte
...is not so variable a thing in nature," adding, " within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot...female part of our species were much taller than the men.2 I remember several ladies that were once very near seven feet high, 1 As early as March 1709,... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 660 lehte
...in nature," adding, " within my own memory I have known it rise and fall ahove thirty degrees. Ahout ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch...female part of our species were much taller than the men.2 I rememher several ladies that were once very near seven feet high, 1 As early as March 1709,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1852 - 264 lehte
...variable 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...the female part of our species were much taller than men. The women were of such an enormous stature that we appeared as Grasshoppers before them. At present... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1852 - 266 lehte
...variable 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...the female part of our species were much taller than men. The women were of such an enormous stature that we appeared as Grasshoppers before them. At present... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 lehte
...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...much taller than the men.* The women were of such an enormous stature, that we appeared as grasshoppers before them : at present the whole sex is in... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 lehte
...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...much taller than the men.* The women were of such an enormous stature, that "we appeared as grasshoppers before them:"* at present the whole sex is in... | |
 | 1853 - 524 lehte
...variable a thing in nature as a lady's headdress. Within my own memory I have known it rise andfallabove thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to...much taller than the men.* The women were of such an enormous stature, that " we appeared as grasshoppers before them:" * at present the whole sex is... | |
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