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I58 ' " Fiasbioiz-.
corrupt‘ expectations ; that they never bribed voices, bought
elections, nor in any wise deliled themselves with this sin of unclean-
‘ness. , , ‘
I believe, concludes IValsingliam, there are some alive, who remem-
ber particularVGentlemen who generally voted against a Court, imd
expressed an extraordinary vehemence on most occasions; yet at C9?‘
tain times would come into healing measures, if their assistance was
wanted: which sliews, that some men only make virtue a pretence, and
sell their countiy when they have a fair opportunity.
Faslzioiz.
OF all demagogucs worshipped in this Country,‘ there are none Of
them so universally adored as Fashion; she courted by all ranks Of
people, without regard to age or sex; neither have 1l.Ily‘SCC‘t0f the
. religionists been able to withstand her overpowering; ‘cliarinsr T110
quakers are the only people who have made any obstinate stand against
’her inchantments; but, woeful to the memory‘ of their first founfl.?"I
George Fox, many of the younger branches ‘of respectable families
are now to be seen in their meeting-houses, with tails hanging down
their backs! ..
In other countries, however, she. has met with very different feat‘
merit; the Spaniards never could bear withlier insoleiiee, and in 1'6‘
g8.1‘(l to themselves, have, rejected her allurcments in toto, amlwollld
not have suffered the very appearance of her in’ thatygravc COUNTY!
were it not owing to their pbliteness to strangers, who have been ll“?
medium of her introduction-tliere a king will ride a‘ hunting thltli’ of
forty years in the same leathern jacket. .Wliat a stroke at her doiniiia-
tion! ‘ - . e ',
H9-d 3 Spanish limner taken the Portrait Of Sit‘ Waltcl‘ Raleigh in his
habit at that time, as the standard dress of an Englishman, 110 cc,"
fainly would be startled at seeing one of our present Jcmmy J umps; 1 '
at the Same time he was told that he also was an Englisliman‘ 5'1“
ravages has she committed in the course of a century, by giving man’
kind different appcamnces, tiiat the creature man might be take” or
50meu‘l“g else were it not for the kindness and steadiness of natural
Whiflh always produces its own likeness. She has made dreadful info“ 3
Eateli’ among the Dutch ;-‘you will see very few merchants 0“ t‘
Ch“’,‘Se at Amsterdam now in their smuggling breeches ; the full 110:6
tom 13 chiefly coiiliiied to the skippers and their servants, ‘and I ,supP0“
the Custom is continued by them merely to ‘please their owners; know
mg 110W Temilfkilbly fond they‘ are of illicit practises. It has been the?"
111.’lif0I'II1 practice of her lovers, to vindicate her whims, on the gm,“ 3
of C0nVCnl9“C0 3 CVery time the fashion changes, it to them HPPCQFD
not only neat, and "smart, but convenient-It ‘very convenicn
“"“'m “'93th91' t0 ha"9‘011e’s'.collar so hirrh intlie neck ; then 8 Par ,
the hair must be cut off, tdmake room foi? it,--it has a cool appearance -
how cool and convenient are a pair of. breeches, reachingdowii t0 t C
(middle of the leg ?--granted ;--and howextrcmely convenient that