Madre Natura Versus the Moloch of Fashion: A Social EssayChatto & Windus, 1874 - 119 páginas |
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... further regard for the æsthetic sen- timent that evinces a cultivated standard of taste and last , though not least , with that view to the conservation of the health and comfort of the wearer which was one of the 12 MADRE NATURA v .
... further regard for the æsthetic sen- timent that evinces a cultivated standard of taste and last , though not least , with that view to the conservation of the health and comfort of the wearer which was one of the 12 MADRE NATURA v .
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... least in our purpose , though thus shaped in negative forms of expression , we will give it a more positive and assuring shape , by the candid avowal of our opinion that had Phryne , when tried for her life by the Athenian Areopagitæ ...
... least in our purpose , though thus shaped in negative forms of expression , we will give it a more positive and assuring shape , by the candid avowal of our opinion that had Phryne , when tried for her life by the Athenian Areopagitæ ...
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... least have been treated more in regard to the real interests of society than in the specious and flippantly sophistic style defined by logi- cians as the Argumentum ad Ignorantiam , founded upon premises the insufficiency of which is ...
... least have been treated more in regard to the real interests of society than in the specious and flippantly sophistic style defined by logi- cians as the Argumentum ad Ignorantiam , founded upon premises the insufficiency of which is ...
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... least of all be a ground of complaint to those who are not only its dupes , but too frequently also its victims . We need scarcely repeat here our earnest premonition that we take little concern in the external style or monstrosity in ...
... least of all be a ground of complaint to those who are not only its dupes , but too frequently also its victims . We need scarcely repeat here our earnest premonition that we take little concern in the external style or monstrosity in ...
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... least have sufficed as guide to a correct conception of the right- ful symmetry and natural shape of this wonderfully beautiful structure . The man or woman who would have it otherwise , and give a circular form to the structure that ...
... least have sufficed as guide to a correct conception of the right- ful symmetry and natural shape of this wonderfully beautiful structure . The man or woman who would have it otherwise , and give a circular form to the structure that ...
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Madre Natura Versus the Moloch of Fashion: A Social Essay Luke Limner (pseud. [i.e. John Leighton.]) Visualização integral - 1870 |
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