| Eaton Stannard Barrett - English fiction - 1815 - 724 pages
...a dish of tea, as ever a parcel of porters did over a barrel of beer. And a young valet swore, one might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion ; and then he whispered Molly how killing genteel she looked. But I only pinched her elbow, and I thought... | |
| Advice - 1828 - 72 pages
...name 1 hate. I told Mrs. Haughty that religion wa* quite out of the fashion, and that her daughter might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion. I told her secondly, that religion was practised by no persons of note, or consequence ia life; that... | |
| Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 604 pages
...terrify you by their obloquy, then, contempt, and their ridicule. You have been often told, that you may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion. Let me inform you that it is the fashion of this world to sin. You will naturally believe, and the... | |
| Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1841 - 628 pages
...money, &.C. all demand a share of attention. The fashions — )cs, according to that common saying, "you might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion;" how many slaves there are to the "lust of the eye!" The persans — and what criticisms are here spent... | |
| English literature - 1840 - 600 pages
...preposterous a length, that the toes were obliged to be fastened with chains to the girdle ere theliappy votary of fashion could walk across his own parlour...description, were pressed into service to tie up the crackoteet, or piked shoes.* For in that day, as in this, " the squire endeavours to outshine the knight,... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 pages
..."that that's the fashion at present among my tribe ; sure all my brother puppeys smoke .now, and a man might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion, you know." When they drew near home, they got quite thick entirely ; "now," says Jack, in a good humoured... | |
| Great Britain - 1834 - 404 pages
...ON THE PRINCIPLES OF TASTE IN FEMALE DRESS. IT is a sort of proverb among the female sex, that " one might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion," and to a certain extent the maxim is well justified. A singularity in dress and appearance is not only... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
..."that that's the fashion at present among my tribe ; sure all my brother puppeys smoke now, and a man might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion, you know." When they drew near home, they got quite thick entirely ; " now," says Jack, in a good humoured... | |
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