 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 - Side 123redigert av - 1808Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 450 sider
...shoulder^ ; 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 sider
...shoulders ; but on all these occasions there was not one of them who did not think the new blemish, aft soon as she had got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one. 12. I must not omit my own particular adventure. My friend with the long visage had no sooner taken... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 688 sider
...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,...every one in the assembly brought upon himself, in lieub of what he had parted with; whether it be, that all the evils which befal us, are in some measure... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 sider
...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,...possession, much more disagreeable than the old one. 6. I made the same observation on every other misfortune or calamity, which every one in the assembly... | |
 | 1872 - 556 sider
...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... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 sider
...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... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 sider
...shoulders, and athird 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 bad got it into her possession, much more disagreeable than the old one. I made the same observation... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 310 sider
...reputation ; but on all these occasions there was not one who did not think the new blemish, as soon as she got it into her possession, much more disagreeable...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 become more... | |
 | 1875 - 324 sider
...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... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 sider
...shoulders, and a third cheapening9 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... | |
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