Oblige me to wear tho little hats whibsp;provide ventilation for their weak brains, and that flaxen hair, the vast curls whereof ceal the form of the human fabsp;tho little doublets but just below the arms, and tho big collars falling down to the navel; tho sleeves whibsp;one es at table trying all the sauces, and tho petticoats called breeches; tho tiny shoes, covered with ribbons, whibsp;make you look like feather-legged pigeons; and tho large rolls wherein the legs are put every m, as it were into the stocks, and in whibsp;we e the gallants straddle about with their legs as wide apart, as if they were the beams of a mill?
I should doubtless plea you, bedizened in this way; I e that you wear the stupid gewgaws whibsp;it is the fashion to wear.
AR. We should always agree with the majority, and never bsp;ourlves to be stared at. Extremes shobsp;and a wi man should do with his clothes as with his speebsp;avoid too mubsp;affectation, and without being in too great a hurry, follow whatever ge introduces. I do not think that we should absp;like tho people who always exaggerate the fashion, and who are annoyed that another should go further than themlves in the extremes whibsp;they affebsp;but I maintain that it is wrong, for whatever reasons, obstinately to eschew what every one obrves; that it would be better to be ted among the fools than to be the only wi person, in opposition to every one el.
Oblige me to wear tho little hats whibsp;provide ventilation for their weak brains, and that flaxen hair, the vast curls whereof ceal the form of the human fabsp;tho little doublets but just below the arms, and tho big collars falling down to the navel; tho sleeves whibsp;one es at table trying all the sauces, and tho petticoats called breeches; tho tiny shoes, covered with ribbons, whibsp;make you look like feather-legged pigeons; and tho large rolls wherein the legs are put every m, as it were into the stocks, and in whibsp;we e the gallants straddle about with their legs as wide apart, as if they were the beams of a mill?
I should doubtless plea you, bedizened in this way; I e that you wear the stupid gewgaws whibsp;it is the fashion to wear.
AR. We should always agree with the majority, and never bsp;ourlves to be stared at. Extremes shobsp;and a wi man should do with his clothes as with his speebsp;avoid too mubsp;affectation, and without being in too great a hurry, follow whatever ge introduces. I do not think that we should absp;like tho people who always exaggerate the fashion, and who are annoyed that another should go further than themlves in the extremes whibsp;they affebsp;but I maintain that it is wrong, for whatever reasons, obstinately to eschew what every one obrves; that it would be better to be ted among the fools than to be the only wi person, in opposition to every one el.