An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Volume 2Hunt and Clarke, 1826 - 438 pages |
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... women wore a rich high ornament on the head , which they called " hennins , " and the women of the Netherlands dressed themselves with it . Mr. John Juvenal des Ursins ( who lived in those times ) says that , notwithstanding the wars of ...
... women wore a rich high ornament on the head , which they called " hennins , " and the women of the Netherlands dressed themselves with it . Mr. John Juvenal des Ursins ( who lived in those times ) says that , notwithstanding the wars of ...
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... women . They were about an ell long , and as sharp as steeples , with long crapes , set off with rich fringes , hanging down behind their backs like standards . This preacher was so angry with these head - dresses , that he used to ...
... women . They were about an ell long , and as sharp as steeples , with long crapes , set off with rich fringes , hanging down behind their backs like standards . This preacher was so angry with these head - dresses , that he used to ...
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... women's luxury ; they have attacked that colossus with all the figures of rhetoric , supported by the most solid arguments of religion , and instead of overthrowing it , or at least breaking some part of it , they have seen it increase ...
... women's luxury ; they have attacked that colossus with all the figures of rhetoric , supported by the most solid arguments of religion , and instead of overthrowing it , or at least breaking some part of it , they have seen it increase ...
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... women heard , I will not say a pro- hibition or some threatening , but only a hint of dis- like , they laboured all night on that reformation , and the next day they appeared before the monarch in another dress . The reformation made a ...
... women heard , I will not say a pro- hibition or some threatening , but only a hint of dis- like , they laboured all night on that reformation , and the next day they appeared before the monarch in another dress . The reformation made a ...
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... women wore a rich high ornament on the head , which they called " hennins , " and the women of the Netherlands dressed themselves with it . Mr. John Juvenal des Ursins ( who lived in those times ) says that , notwithstanding the wars of ...
... women wore a rich high ornament on the head , which they called " hennins , " and the women of the Netherlands dressed themselves with it . Mr. John Juvenal des Ursins ( who lived in those times ) says that , notwithstanding the wars of ...
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