 | 1783 - 736 pages
...drefs, arid all ftr vanities of modilh fopperies. Luxury Ьлз of late advanced, with gigantic Rridee in Naples. Forty years ago the Neapolitan ladies wore nets and ribbons an their heads, as the Spaniih women do lotiiij day, and not twenty of them were poflelled of a cap... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 624 pages
...fs, and all the vanities of "modifa fopperies. Luxury has of late advanced with gigantic ftridcs ia Naples. Forty years ago, the Neapolitan ladies wore nets and ribbons on their heads, as the Spam'm. women do to this dart and not twenty of them were poffetled of a cap : but hair plainly dreft... | |
 | 1800 - 620 pages
...drefs, and all the vanities of modilh fopperies. Luxury has of late advanced with gigantic ftrides in Naples. Forty years ago, the Neapolitan ladies...women do to this day, and not twenty of them were pofiefled of a cap : but hair plainly dreil is a mode now confined to the loweft order of inhabitants;... | |
 | 1800 - 624 pages
...drels, and all the vanities of modifh fopperies. Luxury has of late advanced with gigantic ûrides ia Naples. Forty years ago, -the '. . 'Neapolitan ladies wore nets and ribbons on their heads, as the Spnmfli women do to this day, and not twenty of (hem were pof- r • fefled of a cap : but hair plainly... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1846 - 508 pages
...dress, and all the vanities of modish fopperies. Luxury has of late advanced with gigantic strides in Naples. Forty years ago the Neapolitan ladies wore nets and ribbons on their heads, as the Spanish women do to this day, and not twenty of them were possessed of a cap ; but hair plainly dressed... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1846 - 512 pages
...dress, and all the vanities of modish fopperies. Luxury has of late advanced with gigantic strides in Naples. Forty years ago the Neapolitan ladies wore nets and ribbons on their heads, as the Spanish women do to this day, and not twenty of them were possessed of a cap ; but hair plainly dressed... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - 1879 - 528 pages
...; and Plautina's among the women more advanced in years." "Forty years ago," says the same writer, "the Neapolitan ladies wore nets and ribbons on their heads, as the Spanish women do to this day, and not twenty of them were possessed of a cap, but hair plainly dressed... | |
 | 1783 - 742 pages
...drefs, and all the vanities of aiodilh fopperies. Luxury has of late advanced, with gigantic ftrides in Naples. Forty years ago the Neapolitan ladies wore...women do to this day, and not twenty of them were pofielTcd of a cap : but hair plainly drefTed is a mode now confined to the loweft order of inhabitants,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1783 - 624 pages
...drefs, and all the Vanities of modiih fopperies. Luxury has of late advanced with gigantic ftrides in Naples. Forty years ago, the Neapolitan ladies wore nets and ribbons on their heads, as the Spanilh women do to this day, and not twenty of them were poffened of a cap : but hair plainly dreft... | |
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... method. Citizens and lawyers are plain enough in their apparel, but the female part of their family vies with the first court ladies in expensive dress, and all the vanities of modish fopperies. 