Habits and Men: With Remnants of Record Touching the Makers of BothRedfield, 1855 - 402 pages |
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... 164 180 193 • 197 205 219 WHY DID THE TAILORS CHOOSE ST . WILLIAM FOR THEIR PATRON ? . 221 THE TAILORS MEASURED BY THE POETS • SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD , THE HEROIC TAILOR 231 251 GEORGE DÖRFLING , THE MARTIAL TAILOR . ADMIRAL HOBSON , Library of.
... 164 180 193 • 197 205 219 WHY DID THE TAILORS CHOOSE ST . WILLIAM FOR THEIR PATRON ? . 221 THE TAILORS MEASURED BY THE POETS • SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD , THE HEROIC TAILOR 231 251 GEORGE DÖRFLING , THE MARTIAL TAILOR . ADMIRAL HOBSON , Library of.
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... TAILOR JOHN STOW , THE ANTIQUARIAN TAILOR JOHN SPEED , THE ANTIQUARIAN TAILOR SAMUEL PEPYS , THE OFFICIAL TAILOR RICHARD RYAN , THE THEATRICAL TAILOR PAUL WHITEHEAD , THE POET TAILOR MEMS . OF " MERCHANT TAILORS " CHAPTERS ON BEAUX ...
... TAILOR JOHN STOW , THE ANTIQUARIAN TAILOR JOHN SPEED , THE ANTIQUARIAN TAILOR SAMUEL PEPYS , THE OFFICIAL TAILOR RICHARD RYAN , THE THEATRICAL TAILOR PAUL WHITEHEAD , THE POET TAILOR MEMS . OF " MERCHANT TAILORS " CHAPTERS ON BEAUX ...
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... tailor makes the man . " No doubt of it ; and tailors are far better paid than tutors . The Nugees keep country - houses and recline in carriages ; the philo- sophers are accounted of as nuga , and plod on foot to give golden ...
... tailor makes the man . " No doubt of it ; and tailors are far better paid than tutors . The Nugees keep country - houses and recline in carriages ; the philo- sophers are accounted of as nuga , and plod on foot to give golden ...
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... tailor is not honoured with mention in any part of the Scriptures . Gardening was the early occupation , and hence horticulture is accounted refined . Tubal Cain was the first worker in iron ; and from his time down to a very late ...
... tailor is not honoured with mention in any part of the Scriptures . Gardening was the early occupation , and hence horticulture is accounted refined . Tubal Cain was the first worker in iron ; and from his time down to a very late ...
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... tailor is passed over in silence , it is probable that he had no dis- tinct status among the Jews , and that , during a long period at least , every man was his own costumier . In other countries the tailor and the physician were both ...
... tailor is passed over in silence , it is probable that he had no dis- tinct status among the Jews , and that , during a long period at least , every man was his own costumier . In other countries the tailor and the physician were both ...
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Page 172 - If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not...
Page 11 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile, she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 10 - A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility : Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part.
Page 23 - The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea...
Page 329 - Another's diving bow he did adore, Which with a shog casts all the hair before, Till he, with full decorum, brings it back, And rises with a water-spaniel shake. As for his songs, the ladies' dear delight, These sure he took from most of you who write.
Page 20 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue : and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Page 9 - DELIGHT IN DISORDER A SWEET disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction: An erring lace, which here and there...
Page 99 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a Marchioness ; instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Page 19 - And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats
Page 194 - And one of the ladies would, and did sit with her mask on, all the play, and, being exceeding witty as ever I heard woman, did talk most pleasantly with him; but was, I believe, a virtuous woman, and of quality. He would fain know who she was, but she would not tell; yet did give him many pleasant hints of her knowledge of him, by that means setting his brains at work to find out who she was, and did give him leave to use all means to find out who she was, but pulling off her mask.