 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
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 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 mch an enormous stature, that we appeared as grasshoppers before them. At present... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 lehte
...1711. Tanta eet qaœnndi cura decolle. — Juv. Sal vi. 500. So »tudiouil/ iheir penóos they adorn. of one of his hedges. Among other pieces of news...knight brought from his country-seat, he informed tliau the men.* The women were of such an enormous stature, that " we appeared as grasshoppers before... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1860 - 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 up...female part of our species were much taller than the men.f I remember several lidies that were once very near seven feet high, that at present want lome... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1863 - 202 lehte
...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...were 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 472 lehte
...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...much taller than the men. * The women were of such an enormous stature, that we appeared as grasshoppers before them, ?f At present the whole sex is in... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1867 - 696 lehte
...variable a thing iii nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own time I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot...manner diminished and sunk into a race of beauties that seem almost another species. I remember some ladies who were once very near seven feet high, that at... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 lehte
...height insomuch that 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 the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed and shrunk into a race of beauties that seems almost another species. I remember several ladies,... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1872 - 702 lehte
...variable a 1 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...stature that we appeared as grasshoppers before them.' Thus wrote Joseph Addison, graceful essayist and genial companion, a hundred and sixty years ago. That... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1873 - 494 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...were 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1888 - 548 lehte
...species were much taller than the men. The women were of such an enormous stature, that "we appeared aa grasshoppers before them :" at present the whole sex is in a manner dwarfed and shrunk into a race of beauties that seems almost another species. I remember several ladies,... | |
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