Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818, '19 & '20, from Edinburgh, London, The Highlands of Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1J. Maxwell, 1822 - England |
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Page vii
... dress - Assembly Rooms- Scotch Music , · -VII . - To the Same . - The " Blue Stockings " -Taste for the Physical Sciences - Neglect of Classical learning - Scotch Marriages - Dinner in high life , VIII . - Washington's Birth - day ...
... dress - Assembly Rooms- Scotch Music , · -VII . - To the Same . - The " Blue Stockings " -Taste for the Physical Sciences - Neglect of Classical learning - Scotch Marriages - Dinner in high life , VIII . - Washington's Birth - day ...
Page ix
... Dress - Highland Music - The Bag- pipe - Huts and Houses - Description of a Ho- vel and Cottage - Naturally a courageous peo- ple - the Women - a Bathing Scene - Poverty of the Highlanders - Attachment to their coun- · try , -XXIV ...
... Dress - Highland Music - The Bag- pipe - Huts and Houses - Description of a Ho- vel and Cottage - Naturally a courageous peo- ple - the Women - a Bathing Scene - Poverty of the Highlanders - Attachment to their coun- · try , -XXIV ...
Page x
... Dress of a Dandy- Reflections on splendid Hotels - Contrast be- tween the rich and poor - Fate of modest merit - Literary Banditti , -XXXVI . — To Dr. Caldwell . - London Hospitals - Early visits - Dresserships - Pupils - College of ...
... Dress of a Dandy- Reflections on splendid Hotels - Contrast be- tween the rich and poor - Fate of modest merit - Literary Banditti , -XXXVI . — To Dr. Caldwell . - London Hospitals - Early visits - Dresserships - Pupils - College of ...
Page 12
... dress , that , to use Fal- staff's language , " you might have trussed him and all his apparel into an eel skin ! " Scotch , by the way , are generally thin ; indeed , if Mr. S- of our city , were to be so mis- chievous as to come over ...
... dress , that , to use Fal- staff's language , " you might have trussed him and all his apparel into an eel skin ! " Scotch , by the way , are generally thin ; indeed , if Mr. S- of our city , were to be so mis- chievous as to come over ...
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... dress has of late years intro- duced itself into the Athens of the North ; al- though one occasionally meets , in good com- pany , a slovenly poet or dirty politician . There is as much vanity , and more pedantry , in slov . enliness ...
... dress has of late years intro- duced itself into the Athens of the North ; al- though one occasionally meets , in good com- pany , a slovenly poet or dirty politician . There is as much vanity , and more pedantry , in slov . enliness ...
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