 | John Francis Davis - 1836 - 420 sayfa
...of the very opposite characters of figure admired in the two sexes. A woman should be ex252 tremely slender and fragile in appearance ; a man very stout,...indulging in this piece of foppery, on the ground that fingers provided with such appendages could not possibly perform any work. The brittleness of the nail... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 574 sayfa
...difference in the manner of conducting them. We play our pieces in the open air, the (I) [ " In China, it is fashionable in both men and women to allow the...represented in Sir Charles Bell's work on the ' Hand.' The brittleness of the nail rendering it liable to break, they have been known sometimes to protect... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1840 - 422 sayfa
...numerous brood." A conjecture has already been offered in explanation of the very opposite characters i,f figure admired in the two sexes. A woman should be...indulging in this piece of foppery, on the ground that fingers provided with such appendages could not possibly perform any work. The brittleness of the nail... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1851 - 582 sayfa
...adspice rugas Quales, umbriferos ubi pandit Tabraca saltus, In vetula scalpit jam mater simiu bucca." "Such wrinkles see, As in an Indian forest's solitude,...one of his servants from indulging in this piece of foppeiy, on the ground that fingers provided with such appendages could not possibly perform any work.... | |
 | Thomas Phillips - 1854 - 136 sayfa
...according to Chinese notions of beauty, should be " extremely slender and fragile in appearance, and a man very stout, — not in those proportions that...an appearance very like the claws of the bradypus. But the most unaccountable species of taste is that mutilation of the women's feet, for which the Chinese... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 592 sayfa
...suttlers, numberless servants, women and children in abundance, and but few soldiers. Adieu. 1 " In China, it is fashionable in both men and women to allow the...represented in Sir Charles Bell's work on the ' Hand.' The brittleness of the nail rendering it liable to break, they have been known sometimes to protect... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 576 sayfa
...and ehildren in abundanee, and but few soldiers. Adieu. • [" In China, it is fashionable for hoth men and women to allow the nails of the left hand...grow to an inordinate length, until they assume an appearanee very like the elaws of the bradypus, as represented in Sir Charles Bell'a work on the '... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 556 sayfa
...guttlers, numberless servants, women and children in abundance, and but few soldiers. Adieu. 1 "In China, it is fashionable in both men and women to allow the nails of the left band to grow to an inordinate length, until they assume an appearance very like the claws of the bradypus,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 580 sayfa
...women and children in abundance, and but few soldiers. Adieu. • [" In China, it is fashionable for both men and women to allow the nails of the left...represented in Sir Charles Bell's work on the ' Hand.' The brittleness of the nail rendering it liable to break, they have been known sometimes to protect... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1857 - 506 sayfa
...adspice rugas Quales, mnbriferos ubi pandit Tabraca saltus, In vetula scalpit jam mater simia bucca." " Such wrinkles see, As in an Indian forest's solitude,...indulging in this piece of foppery, on the ground that fingers provided with such appendages could not possibly perform any work. The brittleness of the nail... | |
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It is fashionable in both men and women to allow the nails of the left hand to grow to an inordinate length, until they assume an appearance very like the claws of the bradypus, as represented in Sir Charles Bell's work on the "Hand. 
