 WOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution 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 women in the exercise...  The popular educator - Σελίδα 322των Popular educator - 1860Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1729 - 354 σελίδες
...SPECTATOR. »•»*: that I fhall give it my Reader at Length, without either Preface or Poftfcript. Mr. SPECTATOR, WOMEN are armed with Fans as Men with Swords, and fornetimes do more Execution with them. To the end therefore that Ladies may be entire Miftreflis of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 σελίδες
...' S tentions, so 'that I shall give it my reader at length, without either preface or postscript. * MR. SPECTATOR, ' WOMEN are armed with fans as men...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 σελίδες
...vii. s tentions, so that I shall give it my reader at length, without either preface or postscript. ' MR. SPECTATOR, ' WOMEN are armed with fans as men...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... | |
 | 1856 - 766 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 462 σελίδες
...the subject better than in the words of the original. " ME. SPECTATOE :— Women are armed with fane as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them . To the end, therefore, that ladiee may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an academy for the training... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 σελίδες
...own intentions, so that I shall give it my readers at length, without either preface or postscript " MR. SPECTATOR, " WOMEN are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometime!) do more execution with them. To the end therefore th«t ladies may be entire mistresses... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1854 - 368 σελίδες
...for quiet satire, and I shall therefoie transcribe it as your lesson in composition, requesting you to send to some friend an account both of the ensuing...SPECTATOR. — Women are armed with fans, as men with words, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be entire mistresses... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 σελίδες
...intentions, so that I shall give it my reader at length, without either preface or post:;ciipt • MR. SPECTATOR : Women are armed with fans as men with...sometimes do more execution with them. To the end, therefor I, that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an academy... | |
 | 1865 - 854 σελίδες
...fijifclator (No. 102), gives a humorous account of the tactics of coquettes in the use of fans : ' Women are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them ; ' then lie goes on to describe how ladies are instructed to handle, discharge, ground, and flutter... | |
 | 1866 - 346 σελίδες
...should say nowa-days, upon " Tho exercise of tho fan." " Women," says the supposed correspondent, " are armed with fans, as men with swords, and sometimes do more with them." " To tho end, therefore, that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they... | |
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