| Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1815 - 724 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 1828 - 604 Seiten
...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 - 1841 - 628 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1840 - 600 Seiten
...produce gold ; and for those who possessed not either precious metal, and who yet felt they "might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion," latteen chains, silken cords, aye, and cords of even less costly description, were pressed into service... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1834 - 404 Seiten
...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 - 1835 - 460 Seiten
...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... | |
| Theodore Edward Hook - 1837 - 450 Seiten
...a toddle, as soon as the fashionable time arrives, and no mistake." " Yes," said Salmon, " one may as well be out of the world, as out of the fashion — eh ? Titsy — twig ?" " You are quite right, JS" said the lady ; " and upon my word, now I look... | |
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