Eighteenth-century London LifeJ. Murray, 1937 - 385 pages |
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Page 184
... clothes of the upper classes , the fashionable people , who had nothing to do with the rough and tumble of everyday life , whose attire is thus described in The Bath Guide . In a bandbox is contained Painted lawns and chequered shades ...
... clothes of the upper classes , the fashionable people , who had nothing to do with the rough and tumble of everyday life , whose attire is thus described in The Bath Guide . In a bandbox is contained Painted lawns and chequered shades ...
Page 231
... clothes and kept in the same dreadful atmosphere , and bits of butter , sugar or caudle were forced down the throats of newly - born infants . In vain did the more enlightened doctors protest and recom- mend fresh air , clean clothes ...
... clothes and kept in the same dreadful atmosphere , and bits of butter , sugar or caudle were forced down the throats of newly - born infants . In vain did the more enlightened doctors protest and recom- mend fresh air , clean clothes ...
Page 379
... clothes of those who are exposed to it . . . for this reason London swarms with the shops of scourers , busied in scouring , repairing and new furbishing the clothes that are smoked in this manner . This scouring is perpetual . " As the ...
... clothes of those who are exposed to it . . . for this reason London swarms with the shops of scourers , busied in scouring , repairing and new furbishing the clothes that are smoked in this manner . This scouring is perpetual . " As the ...
Contents
LONDONS ASPECTS AND CHARACTERISTICS | 8 |
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION | 26 |
THE LIFE OF THE UPPER CLASSES | 40 |
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