 WOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end, therefore, that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an Academy for the training up of young women in the Exercise...  Eighteenth Century Essays - Seite 77von Austin Dobson - 1882 - 284 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1729 - 342 Seiten
...or Puftfcript. Mr. SPECTATOR, ' TT7OMEN are armed with Fans as Men with ' VV Swords, and fometimes do more Execution ' with them. To the end therefore that Ladies may be ' entire Miftrefles of the Weapon which they bear, I have • erefted an Academy for the training up of young... | |
 | 1739 - 346 Seiten
...Preface or Poftfcript. Mr. SPECTATOR, ' VV OMEN are armed with Fans as Men witli ** Swords, and fometimes do more Execution with them. To the end therefore that Ladies may be in tire MiftrefTes of the Weapon which they bear, I have creeled an Academy for the training up of... | |
 | 1778 - 124 Seiten
...of the Fan. Ladies, fays this Gentleman, are armed with Fans, as Men are with Swords, and fometimes do more Execution with them. To the End therefore, that Ladies may be entire Miftrefles of the Weapons they bear, I have erefted an Academy for the training up of young Ladies... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 Seiten
...I shall give it my reader at length, without either preface or postscript. ' MR. SPECTATOR, ' WOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes...with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be intire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an academy for the training up of young... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 Seiten
...I shall give it my reader at length, without either preface or postscript. * MR. SPECTATOR, ' WOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes...with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be intire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an academy for the training up of young... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 Seiten
...I shall give it my reader at length without either preface or postscript. " MR. SPECTATOR, " WOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes...weapon which they bear, I have erected an Academy for the training up of young women in the Exercise of the Fan, according to the most fashionable airs... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 Seiten
...animo debcnt aliquando dari, Ad cogitandum melior ut redeat sibi. . PHJEOR. " MR. SPECTATOR, " WOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes...weapon which they bear, I have erected an Academy for the training up of young women in the Exercise of the Fan, according to the most fashionable airs... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 Seiten
...without either preface or postscript. ' мя. SPECTATOR, ' WOMEN are armed with fans asmen with »wor<(>. and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be entire mitresM-s of the weapon which they bear, 1 bate erected an academy for the training up of young women... | |
 | 1856 - 766 Seiten
...English ladies then, as it still is in those of the Spanish donnas. " Women," says the essayist, " are armed with fans, as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them"— an expression playfully seconded in his chapter on the " Mother of Poetry," by one or two cases on... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 Seiten
...shall give it my reader at length, without either preface or postscript. s ' MR. SPECTATOR, ' WOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes...weapon which they bear, I have erected an academy for the training up of young women in the exercise of the fan, according to the most fashionable airs... | |
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