 | 1865 - 838 pàgines
...changes that have come in all these years we have never changed to each other. ADVICE ON DEESS. If yon are a young lady, and employ a certain number of sempstresses...can wear one yourself for half the winter, and give away six to poor girls who have none — you are spending your money unselfishly. But if you employ... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 pàgines
...period, the kind of things which shall be useful to society, instead of those which are only useful to ourselves. Thus, for instance : if you are a young...your money unselfishly. But if you employ the same mimber of sempstresses for the same number of days, in making four, or five, or six beautiful flounces... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pàgines
...them o'er at night. (Yi <••/,. DRESS— Advice on. If you are a young lady, and employ a cvrtaia number of sempstresses for a given time, in making a given number of simple ir.d serviceable dresses — suppose seven, of »bich you can wear one yourself for half the Tinier,... | |
 | J. S., John Sheppard (of Frome.) - 1865 - 232 pàgines
...not a divine, has placed this consideration very forcibly before the minds of those who neglect it. " If you are a young lady, and employ a certain number...employ the same number of sempstresses for the same time in making four, five, or six beautiful flounces for your own ball dress — flounces which will... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 140 pàgines
...period, the kind of things which shall be useful to society, instead of those which are only useful to ourselves. Thus, for instance : if you are a young...you employ the same number of sempstresses for the game number of days, in making four, or five, or six beautiful flounces for your own ball-dress —... | |
 | Ethel C. Gale - 1872 - 136 pàgines
...ours, and close our little volume with a paragraph from his lecture on the " management of riches." " If you are a young lady, and employ a certain number of seamstresses for a given time, in making a given number of simple and serviceable dresses, suppose... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1886 - 160 pàgines
...period, the kind of things which shall be useful to society, instead of those which are only useful to ourselves. Thus, for instance : if you are a young...you employ the same number of sempstresses for the Bamc number of days, in making four, or five, or six beautiful flounces for your own ball-dress —... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 670 pàgines
...of things which shall be useful to society, instead of those which are only useful to ourselves. 50. Thus, for instance: if you are a young lady, and employ...number of sempstresses for the same number of days, hi making four, or five, or six beautiful flounces for your own ball-dress—flounces which will clothe... | |
 | Scott Nearing - 1916 - 304 pàgines
...community is covered, as perhaps nowhere else in literature, by a passage from Ruskin's "Unto This Last:" "If you are a young lady, and employ a certain number...seven; of which you can wear one yourself for half the whiter, and give six away to poor girls who have none, you are spending your money unselfishly. But... | |
| |
Thus, for instance : if you are a young lady, and employ a certain number of sempstresses for a given time, in making a given number of simple and serviceable dresses, suppose, seven ; of which you can wear one yourself for half the winter, and give six... 