Februar 3, 2012
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Ein junger, reicher Alien (Fremder), seit einiger Zeit in London wohnhaft, wo er, durch seinen Aufwand und seine gesellschaftlichen Beziehungen, ein ziemlich anständiges Haus machte, lies, um möglichst in Allem den Gebräuchen und der äussern Haltung der Bevölkerung sich beizugesellen, … Weiterlesen
März 5, 2009
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Guardians of good! to Britain’s youth impart Some new academy to teach the heart! See Education, in these book-read times, Parent of Selfishness, dark fount of crimes! Man, plainly, of the monkey tribe appears, More copying what he sees than … Weiterlesen
Dezember 31, 2008
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BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE WHOLE ART OF DRESS.” Despotic thing, for ever changing, Ever bright, and ever new, Through varied maze of fancy ranging, Hail! in all, and worship you. St. James’s, an unpublished Poem. The influence of fashion … Weiterlesen
Dezember 26, 2008
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AN EXAMINATION OF A CANDIDATE FOR A DEGREE. We understand from very excellent authority, that an University is about to be instituted in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, where the old-fashioned qualifications of classical and scientific learning are to be … Weiterlesen
Dezember 22, 2008
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It is amusing to walk down Regent street in the height of the London season, and see the changes that each year produces in the costume of the promenaders; to speculate on the impression the fashions of the day would … Weiterlesen
Dezember 13, 2008
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IT will, perchance, set some of my readers in a puzzle to discover what connexion can exist between fashion and philosophy, especially those who are apt to confound terms, and imagine that philosophy can only be applied in the vulgar … Weiterlesen
Dezember 6, 2008
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A Bow-Street investigation lately exhibited a happy instance of the career of one of those “elegant” coxcombs who lounge through the capital in the desperate determination to be fashionables; who poison the air with their cigars, astonish the rabble by … Weiterlesen
Dezember 1, 2008
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The Philosophy of Fashion EVERY rational being must acknowledge the supremacyof fashion over the civilised portion of the world, but few could point out the peculiar principles in human nature most strongly affected by its influence. Pride, ambition, and vanity, … Weiterlesen
November 30, 2008
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THE fashion of a thing is the form thereof. “Thou hast fashioned me,” thou hast made me: we pay a silversmith five shillings an ounce for the silver of our tea-spoons or our epergne, and five or fifty more for … Weiterlesen
Mai 11, 2008
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THERE is a class of travelling oddities , the dandy voyageurs of Britain, who, teeming with the proud consciousness of their excellence in comparison with the rest of human kind, swoln with self-sufficiency, float like empty bubbles on the water’s … Weiterlesen