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" The love of becoming ornament is not perhaps to be regarded in the light of vanity ; it is rather an instinct which woman has received from nature to give effect to those charms that are her defence ; and when commerce began to minister more effectually... "
Outlines of the world's history - Page 332
by Edgar Sanderson - 1885 - 664 pages
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View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, Volume 2

Henry Hallam - 1818 - 670 pages
...ambition. The love of becoming ornament is not perhaps to be regarded in the light of vanity ; it is rather an instinct which woman has received from nature to...over beauty which the choice and arrangement of dress is calculated to bestow. Courtesy had always been the proper attribute of knighthood ; protection of...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 1

1839 - 568 pages
...ambition. The love of becoming ornaments is not to be regarded in the light of vanity; it is rather an instinct, which woman has received from Nature,...her defence ; and when commerce began to minister to the wants of luxury, the rich furs of the north, the gay silks of Asia, the wrought gold of domestic...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 1

Commerce - 1839 - 566 pages
...ambition. The love of becoming ornaments is not to be regarded in the light of vanity ; it is rather an instinct, which woman has received from Nature,...her defence ; and when commerce began to minister to the wants of luxury, the rich furs of the north, the gay silks of Asia, the wrought gold of domestic...
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The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of ...

Elizabeth Stone, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - Embroidery - 1841 - 424 pages
...Europe in the Middle Ages,' — " is not, perhaps, to be regarded in the light of vanity ; it is rather an instinct which woman has received from Nature to give effect to those charms which are her defence." And if it be necessary to woman with her charms, is it not tenfold necessary...
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The art of needle-work, from the earliest ages [by E. Stone] ed. by the ...

Elizabeth Stone - 1841 - 446 pages
...Europe in the Middle Ages,' — " is not, perhaps, to be regarded in the light of vanity; it is rather an instinct which woman has received from Nature to give effect to those charms which are her defence." And if it be necessary to woman with her charms, is it not tenfold necessary...
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View of the state of Europe during the Middle ages. 2 vols. [with ..., Volume 2

Henry Hallam - 1846 - 582 pages
...ambition. The love of becoming ornament is not perhaps to be regarded in the light of vanity ; it is rather an instinct which woman has received from nature to...over beauty which the choice and arrangement of dress is calculated to bestow. Courtesy had always been the proper attribute of knighthood ; protection of...
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View of the state of Europe during the Middle ages. 2 vols. [with ..., Volume 3

Henry Hallam - 1856 - 534 pages
...ambition. The love of becoming ornament is not perhaps to be regarded in the light of vanity ; it is rather an instinct which woman has received from nature to...gold of domestic manufacture, illumined the halls of chivalrj, and cast, as if by the spell of enchantment, that ineffable grace over beauty which the choice...
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The graduated series of reading-lesson books, Book 5

Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...ambition. The love of becoming ornament is not perhaps to be regarded in the light of vanity ; it is rather an instinct which woman has received from nature to...beauty, which the choice and arrangement of dress is calculated to bestow. Courtesy had always been thn proper attribute of knighthood ; protection of...
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View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, Volume 3

Henry Hallam - Europe - 1861 - 500 pages
...ambition. The love of becoming ornament is not perhaps to be regarded in the light of vanity ; it is rather an instinct which woman has received from nature to...began to minister more effectually to the wants of luxnry, the rich furs of the North, the gav silks of Asia, the wronght gold of domestic manufactnre,...
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Laurie's Graduated series of reading lesson books, Book 6

James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 300 pages
...ambition. The love of becoming ornament is not perhaps to be regarded in the light of vanity ; it is rather an instinct which woman has received from nature to...beauty, which the choice and arrangement of dress is calculated to bestow. Courtesy had always been She proper attribute of knighthood ; protection of...
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