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Excerpt from Famous Blue-Stockings <p>Such a composition of monkey and demon as at one half of the day appears to be studying all the tricks of the most triing and contemptible foppery, and in the other is raving and blaspheming at a gaming-table, must be an aggregate of all the follies and all the crimes that a worthless head and a pro igate heart can collect from all parts of the globe. Mrs Delany and Hannah More inveigh against the high head-dresses and other foolish absurdities. Mrs Barbauld writes: Your waist must be the circumference of two oranges, no more. You must erect a structure on your head, gradually standing to a foot high, exclusive of feathers, and stretching to a penthouse of most horrible projection behind, the breadth from Wing to wing considerably broader than your shoulder, and as many different things in your cap as in Noah's ark. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.