… as you know, on the chapter of health, and have persisted through this Siberian winter in not adding a grain to m y clothes, and in going open-breasted without an under-waistcoat. In short, though I like extremely to live, it must be in …
… before had done. 1 . Peter Beckford, Thoughts on Hunting (London, 1782), p. 214. As with all high status hunting, fine clothes were an essential part of the experience, with the fashionable Leicestershire hunts leading the way in the …
… to receive and communicate knowledge; to show their wit or their breeding; their taste in conversation or living, in clothes or furniture. (Hume 107) Ur ban culture, taste, politeness , conversation , all rely on the refinement created by …
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… dinners and balls, and giving cups and trophies as prizes for the races themselves. Dressed in their best court clothes and bedecked with jewels, the members of leading political families used the social events of Race Weeks to …
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