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FASHION . Loveliness Needs not the aid of foreign ornaments , But is , when
unadorn'd , adorn'd the most . — Thompson . We profess to be a Christian people
, and are contributing , very sparingly to be sure , to the laudable enterprise of ...
FASHION . Loveliness Needs not the aid of foreign ornaments , But is , when
unadorn'd , adorn'd the most . — Thompson . We profess to be a Christian people
, and are contributing , very sparingly to be sure , to the laudable enterprise of ...
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Fashion taxes without reason , and collects without mercy . She first infatuates the
court and aristocracy , and then ridicules the poor if they do not follow in the wake
, although they die in the ditch . This was exemplified in the reign of Richard III ...
Fashion taxes without reason , and collects without mercy . She first infatuates the
court and aristocracy , and then ridicules the poor if they do not follow in the wake
, although they die in the ditch . This was exemplified in the reign of Richard III ...
Page 77
Fashion is the foster mother of vanity , the offal of pride , and has nursed her pet ,
until it is as fat as a sea turtle , is quite as wicked to bite , and harder to kill ; but ,
unlike that inhabitant of the herring pond , instead of keeping in a shell , it is ...
Fashion is the foster mother of vanity , the offal of pride , and has nursed her pet ,
until it is as fat as a sea turtle , is quite as wicked to bite , and harder to kill ; but ,
unlike that inhabitant of the herring pond , instead of keeping in a shell , it is ...
Page 147
Fashion and habit have also thrown much mud in the stream of matrimony , since
the time our hạrdy and happy pioneers settled this country . Then , the girls and
boys were permitted to eat and grow fatnow , they are often moulded after the ...
Fashion and habit have also thrown much mud in the stream of matrimony , since
the time our hạrdy and happy pioneers settled this country . Then , the girls and
boys were permitted to eat and grow fatnow , they are often moulded after the ...
Page 181
Custom and fashion have combined to legalize promise breaking . Some men ,
like bad boys , promise , to avoid , and pass over an unpleasant emergency ,
without an intention of performing ; nay more , they often make promises they
know ...
Custom and fashion have combined to legalize promise breaking . Some men ,
like bad boys , promise , to avoid , and pass over an unpleasant emergency ,
without an intention of performing ; nay more , they often make promises they
know ...
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| Title | The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things: Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | The author, 1848 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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