| Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 páginas
...that fair weather should ever do any harm. [To Pfeverout.] Why, Tom, you are high in the mode. Never. My lord, it is better to be out of the world than out of the fashion. Smart. But, Tom, I hear you and miss are always quarrelling : I fear it is your fault ; for... | |
| Louise Caroline Tuthill, Mrs. Louisa C. Cuthill - 1853 - 312 páginas
...be laughed out of countenance. Her frown is terrific ; her votaries proclaim from her high places, " It is better to be out of the world than out of the fashion." As a first rule, then (though last in importance), let your dress be in the fashion, provided... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1855 - 452 páginas
...despotism of public opin> ion ! Public opinion is her " rule of faith and practice." She thinks that " it is better to be out of the world than out of fashion." This is the despotism that governs woman. She fails to draw a line of demarcation between... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1857 - 432 páginas
...Col. My lord, the day is finely cleared up. Smart. Ay, colonel ; 'tis a pity that fair weather should ever do any harm. [To Neverout^] Why, Tom, you are high in the mode. Never. My lord, it is better to be out of the world than out of the fashion. Smart. But, Tom, I hear... | |
| 1872 - 832 páginas
...the only work in which, for him, blessedness is possible. Here is the significance of the saying : " It is better to be out of the world than out of the path of duty." The same train of thought applies to the prosecution of missionary work. It cannot be... | |
| Thomas Wright - 1868 - 358 páginas
...should be devoted to the family history of its subject ; and as our family go upon the principle that it is better to be out of the world than out of the fashion, I consider that I owe it to them to do my best to comply with the rule. Though, as we are... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1868 - 500 páginas
...despotism of public opinion ! Public opinion is her " rule of faith and practice." She thinks that " it is better to be out of the world than out of fashion." This is the despotism that governs woman. She fails to draw a line of demarcation between... | |
| 1870
...the lire to another, and another, and another, until the whole unites in a flame. The eld adage, that "it is better to be out of the world than out of the fashion," has often been applied to ladies. Whether they deserve it or not, I do not pretend to decide... | |
| Samuel Harris - 1874 - 278 páginas
...the only work in which, for him, blessedness is possible. Here is the significance of the saying : " It is better to be out of the world than out of the path of duty." The same train of thought applies to the prosecution of missionary work. It cannot be... | |
| Woman's State Centennial Executive Committee, Wis - 1876 - 262 páginas
...understood that this is in obedience to the mandates of what is called "good society." The axiom that "it is better to be out of the world, than out of the fashion," is received as a primary article in our domestic codes. The avenues of relief from this despotism... | |
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