 The female world were very busy among themselves in bartering for features : one was trucking a lock of gray hairs for a carbuncle, another was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation...  The British Essayists - Pagina 123geredigeerd door - 1808Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1901 - 654 pagina’s
...shoulders; and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation ; but on all these occasions, there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish,...parted with; whether it be that all the evils which befall us are in some measure suited and proportioned to our strength, or that every evil becomes more... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 456 pagina’s
...shoulders; and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation; but on all these occasions, there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish,...parted with; whether it be that all the evils which befall us are in some measure suited and proportioned to our strength, or that every evil becomes more... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902 - 518 pagina’s
...shoulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation: but on all these occasions, there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish,...parted with; whether it be that all the evils which befall us are in some measure suited and proportioned to our strength, or that every evil becomes more... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 474 pagina’s
...shoulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation; but on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish,...parted with. Whether it be that all the evils which befall us are in some measure suited and proportioned to our strength, or that every evil becomes more... | |
 | Sherman Williams - 1902 - 504 pagina’s
...shoulders; and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation; but on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one. I made the same observation on... | |
 | 1903 - 360 pagina’s
...was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders ; but on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she got it into her possession, much . more disagreeable than the old one. I made the same observation... | |
 | 1903 - 1048 pagina’s
...world were very busy among themselves in bartering for features : but on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one. I made the same observation on... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 pagina’s
...another was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders; but on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one. I made the same observation on... | |
 | 1907 - 264 pagina’s
...another was making over a short waist for a pair of round shoulders; but on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one. I made the same observation on... | |
 | 1912 - 414 pagina’s
...was not one of them who did not tlunk the new blemish,- soon as she got it into her possession, mi more disagreeable than the old one. I made the same...calamity which every one in the assembly brought upon himseU of what he had parted with; whether it be that all the evils that befall us are in some measure... | |
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