 | Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville - United States - 1794 - 408 pages
...will find here the Englifh fafhions. In the drefs of the women you will fee the moft brilliant filks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair. Equipages are rare; but they are elegant. The men have more fimplicity in their drefs; they difdain gewgaws, but they take their revenge in the luxury of the table.... | |
 | Travel - 1797 - 356 pages
...will find here the Englifh fafhions. In the drefs of the women, you will fee the moft brilliant filks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair. Equipages are rare,...are elegant. The men have more Simplicity in their drefs; they difdain gewgaws, but they take their revenge in the luxury of the table. Luxury forms already,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1803 - 380 pages
...and ninety-six. If there is a town on the American continent where the English luxury displays its follies, it is New York. You will find here the English...silks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair. Equipages are raret, but they are elegant. The men have more simplicity in their dress ; they disdain gewgaws, but... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1855 - 516 pages
...when he was in anger. " If there is a town on the American continent where English luxury displays its follies, it is New York. You will find here the English...disdain gewgaws, but they take their revenge in the delicacies of the table. Luxury forms already in this town a class of men very dangerous in society... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1856 - 466 pages
...he was in anger e " If there is a town on the American continent where English luxury displays its follies, it is New York. You will find here the English...disdain gewgaws, but they take their revenge in the delicacies of the table. Luxury forms already in this town a class of men very dangerous in society... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - America - 1893 - 740 pages
...is a town on the American continent where the English luxury displays its follies, it is New-York. You will find here the English fashions. In the dress...brilliant silks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair. The men have more simplicity in their dress." But that France also contributed to set the fashion of... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - America - 1893 - 826 pages
...is a town on the American continent where the English luxury displays its follies, it is New-York. You will find here the English fashions. In the dress...brilliant silks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair. The men have more simplicity in their dress." But that France also contributed to set the fashion of... | |
 | Mary Gay Humphreys - Biography & Autobiography - 1897 - 286 pages
...luxury displays its follies it is New York," writes that discriminating observer, Brissot de Warville. "In the dress of the women you will see the most brilliant silks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair." The "New York Gazette" of May 15, 1789, describes some of these dresses with admirable particularity.... | |
 | Mary Gay Humphreys - Albany (N.Y.) - 1897 - 512 pages
...luxury displays its follies it is New York," writes that discriminating observer, Brissot de Warville. "In the dress of the women you will see the most brilliant silks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair. " The "New York Gazette" of May 15, 1789, describes some of these dresses with admirable particularity.... | |
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follies, it is New York. You will find here the English fashions : in the dress of the women you will see the most brilliant silks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair; equipages are rare, but they are elegant: the men have more simplicity in their dress... 
