 | 1837 - 540 pagine
...source of weak eyes and a Ballow complexion. " A white hand is a very desirable ornament ; and a baud can never be white unless it be kept clean ; nor is this all, for if a young lady would excel in this respect, she must keep her hands in constant motion, which will occasion the blood to circulate... | |
 | Tracts for the people - 1847 - 800 pagine
...disagreeable aspect, the second is the mother of wrinkles, and the third is a fruitful source of weak eyes and sallow complexion. " A white hand is a very desirable...; nor is this all, for if a young lady would excel in this respect, she must keep her hands in constant motion, which will occasion the blood to circulate... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1874 - 392 pagine
...preserved, if they would avoid late hours and card-playing, as well as novelreading by candle-light, but not otherwise ; for the first gives the face a...kept clean ; nor is this all, for if a young lady excels her companions in this respect, she must keep her hands in constant motion, which will occasion... | |
 | Arnold Whitaker Oxford - 1913 - 216 pagine
...housemaid, ami makes her excessively troublesome to every body, and particularly to her husband.' ' A white hand is a very desirable ornament ; and a...unless it be kept clean. Nor is this all ; for if the young lady will excel her companions in this respect, she must keep her hands in constant motion,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 464 pagine
...mother of wrinkles ; and the third is a fruitful soarce of weak eyes and a sallow complexion. A ¥hite hand is a very desirable ornament ; and a hand can...kept clean ; nor is this all, for if a young lady excels her companions in this respect, she must keep her hands in constant motion, which will occasion... | |
 | 1855 - 636 pagine
...by candle-light, but not otherwise; for the first gives the face a drowsy, disagreeable aspect; tho second is the mother of wrinkles; and the third is...kept clean ; nor is this all, for if a young lady excels her companions in this respect, she must keep her hands in constant motion, which will occasion... | |
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... but not otherwise ; for the first gives the face a drowsy, disagreeable aspect ; the second is the mother of wrinkles ; and the third is a fruitful source of weak eyes and a sallow complexion. A white hand is a very desirable ornament ; and a hand... 