 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: Spectator - Page 216by James Ferguson - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 278 pages
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...lervation on every other misfortune or calamity, which every one in the aflembly brought upon himfclf, in lieu of what he had parted with ; whether it be that all the evils which befal us are in lome n.eafure fuited and proportioned to our ftrength, or that every evil becomes more hipportable... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 252 pages
...ders, 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 bcfal us are in some measure suited and proportioned to our strength, or that every evil becomes more... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 924 pages
...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... | |
 | 1823 - 536 pages
...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,...other misfortune or calamity, which every one in the assemby brought upon himself, in lieu of what he had parted with ; whether it be that all the evils... | |
 | Spectator The - 1823 - 352 pages
...lost reputation; buton all these occasions there was VOL. xiv. u not one of them who did not thiuk the new blemish, as soon as she had got it into her...calamity which every one in the assembly brought upon himselfin lieu of what he had parted with: whether it be that all the evils which befal us are in some... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...but on all these occasions, there was not on« of them who did pot think the ne<r blemish, ai loon as she had got it into her possession, much more disagreeable...every other misfortune or calamity, which every one im the assembly brought upon himself, in lieu of what he had parted with; whether it be that all the... | |
 | 1824 - 348 pages
...a lost reputation : but on all fhese occasions there was not one of them who did not think the neu blemish, as soon as she had got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one. 19- I made the same observation on every other misfortune or calamity, which every one in the assembly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...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,...disagreeable than the old one. I made the same observation OB every other misfortune or calamity, which every one in the assembly brought upon himself, in lieu... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pages
...shoulders, and a third cheapening a bad face for a lost reputation: but on all these occasions there was nnt one of them who did not think the new blemish, as...observation on every other misfortune or calamity which even' one in the assembly brought upon himself in lieu of what he had parted with : whether it be that... | |
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