 | 1813 - 778 ページ
...original Work may catch some idea of the nature of it, we copy the Contents of the several Chapters. " 1. The old World, and the new weighed together. The Tailors...compared. The Apparel and Diet of our first Fathers. — 2. How a young Gallant shall not only keep his Clothes, which many of them can bardly do, from... | |
 | 1818 - 764 ページ
...rags only in mockThe author seems indeed to have a very sincere aversion to all fine raiment. " Good clothes are the embroidered trappings of pride, and...of gluttony ; so that fine backs, and fat bellies, arc coach-horses to two of the seven deadly sins ; in the boots of which coach, Lechery and Sloth sit... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 ページ
...they go in jerkins and mandiiions. jMarry how ? They are put into their rags only in mockery. Good clothes are the embroidered trappings of pride, and...so that fine backs and fat bellies are coachhorses ty two of the seven deadly sins, in the boots of which coach Lechery and Sloth sit like the waiting... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 ページ
...eating, may serve as a specimen of the light writing of the period. DEKKAR AGAINST FINE CLOTHES. Good clothes are the embroidered trappings of pride, and good cheer the very root of gluttony. Did man, think you, come wrangling into the world about no better matters, than all... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 ページ
...eating, may serve as a specimen of the light writing of the period. DEKKAR AGAINST FINE CLOTHES. Good clothes are the embroidered trappings of pride, and good cheer the very root of gluttony. Did man, think you, come wrangling into the world about no better matters, than all... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 ページ
...extracts may serve as specimens of the light writing of the period : — [Ayainst Fine ClotJits.} Good of great birth, and estimation, and honour, at open tables avowed, tha root of gluttony. Did man, think you, come wrangling into the world about no better matters, than all... | |
 | Bits - 1847 - 88 ページ
...not audible, all things dissolve into anarchy and confusion.—Lord Bacon. AGAINST FINE CLOTHES. Good clothes are the embroidered trappings of pride, and good cheer the very root of gluttony. Did man, think you, come wrangling into the world about no better matters, than all... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 ページ
...extracts may serve as specimens of the light writing of the period : — [Against Fine Clo&es.] Good n, root of gluttony. Did man, think you, come wrangling into the world about no better matters, than all... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 408 ページ
...Employment. Baume de Vie — Religion. TIRADE AGAINST DRESS. — Decker, an old author, says :— " Good clothes are the embroidered trappings of pride, and good cheer the very root of gluttony. Did man, think you, come into the world wrangling about no better matters than all... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 ページ
...follies of the town, but only with the design of exposing them to ridicule. AGAINST FINE CLOTHES. GOOD clothes are the embroidered trappings of pride, and good cheer the very root of gluttony. Did man, think you, come wrangling into the world about no better matters, than all... | |
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Good clothes are the embroidered trappings of pride, and good cheer the very root of gluttony. Did man, think you, come wrangling into the world about no better matters, than all his lifetime to make privy searches in... 
