Rules for Walking the Streets (1737) [ Places / Practices ]
… Rules for walking the Streets and other Publick Places If we walk in the Park, or any other Publick Place, with a Superior, we are always to … the Miseries of Servitude.---A Laundress from her two pair of Stairs Casement, calls out to a Fellow running along the Streets, with a colour'd Handkerchief about his Head, Joe, what you're going to see the Prisoners go by, I shall call … assembled, as one passes along, is a most impertinent Curiosity. Persons of Figure, when they chuse to amble the Publick Streets, should always appear in a Dress suitable to their Dignit; not only for the sake of the Way, and to prevent …
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