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 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 320 pages
...to think what may e the consequence : for, if they go on in proportion with the women, we may saon expect to see our fine gentlemen, like the Highlanders,...known to expand and contract itself from the size of a bfttter churn to the circumference of three hogsheads: at one time it was sloped from the waist in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 298 pages
...the consequence : for, if they go on in proportion with the women, we may soon expect to see our Cue gentlemen, like the Highlanders, without breeches....known to expand and contract itself from the size of a butter churn to the circumference of three hogsheads : at one time it was sloped from the waist in... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 854 pages
...turn, I tremble to think what may be the consequence : for, if they go on in proportion with the women, we may soon expect to see our fine gentlemen, like...known to expand and contract itself from the size of a butter churn to the circumference of three hogsheads : at one time it was sloped from the waist in... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 422 pages
...turn, 1 tremble to think what may be the consequence; for, if they go on in proportion with the women, we may soon expect to see our fine gentlemen, like...been known to expand and contract itself from the •ixo of a butter churn to the circumference of three hogsheads: at one time it was sloped from the... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 294 pages
...consequence: for if they go on in proportion with the women, we may soon expect to see our finegentlemen, like the Highlanders, without breeches. It would be...known to expand and contract itself from the size of a butter churn to the circumference of three hogsheads : atone time it was sloped from the waist in a... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 414 pages
...turn, 1 tremble to think what may be the consequence ; for, if thel go on in proportion with the women, we may soon expect to see our fine gentlemen, like...breeches. It would be endless to trace the strange revolt! tions, that have happened in every part of the male dress, within these few years. The hoop... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Costume - 1846 - 508 pages
...Another writer gives an amusing account of the shape and varieties of hoops : " The hoop," he observes, "has been known to expand and contract itself from the size of a butter churn to the circumference of three hogsheads ; at one time it was sloped from the waist in... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Costume - 1846 - 512 pages
...Another writer gives an amusing account of the shape and varieties of hoops : " The hoop," he observes, "has been known to expand and contract itself from the size of a butter churn to the circumference of three hogsheads ; at one time it was sloped from the waist in... | |
 | Seba Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1856 - 592 pages
...modern as the one she could remember, will apply equally well to any time in which it was worn : '• The hoop has been known to expand and contract itself...butter-churn to the circumference of three hogsheads. Many are the inconveniences that accrue to her Majesty's loving subjects from the petticoats— as... | |
 | 1868 - 450 pages
...Another writer gives an amusing account of the shape and varieties of hoops: "The hoop," he observes, " has been known to expand and contract itself from the size of a butter churn to the circumference of three hogsheads; at one time, it was sloped from the waist in... | |
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