The Fashion of the Female Head-Dress in Society
An essay complains that extravagant head-dresses rival the face in ornament, arguing the hair and cosmetics beautify the head but excessive adornment harms human symmetry. It cites Mr. Addison on vanity and urges women to avoid piling on ribbons, blondes, and trimmings that distract from natural beauty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adtison
Addison
J. Walter
Homer’s Head
Charing-cross
C. Dilly
Florio’s Lament A Juvenile Poem in Mourning
To the editor the writer submits Every a juvenile production claiming merit for a verse lamenting love and betrayal. The speaker laments mistreatment by Fortune and a beloved maid who loves another, ending with the narrator’s suicide by river after a trusted friend’s treacherous plot. Florio signs the verse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Evening Post
Florio
Venus
Minerva
D. Florio
Price vs WE XIMS Playing the Game
This Day item announces a book titled Price versus WE XIMS for playing the game. It notes calculations and laws of the game, sold by T. Payne at Mews gate St Martin's and by all booksellers in town and country. It states the book is enacted in the Hall book of the Company of Stationery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wemw
T. Payne
St. Martin's
Company of Stationery
Vast Dispatches from Europe and Americas Reported
The day brings letters from Holvano and Constantinople with news of a new levy of forty thousand men and military movements along the Danube. Reports from Warsaw claim the Grand Vizir’s army crossed the river in three columns, while Charles of Sweden and the King of Sweden prepare camps and reviews in Scania and Landscron. Other items include crop yields near Cowbridge with wheat prices and barley surges, insurrections in French Hispaniola, emigration to the colonies from Cork, and executions at Tyburn with details of Mrs. Herring’s death.
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Constantinople
Cahe Porte
Marthalseu
France
Valenciénnes
Berlin
Corps of Artillery
Paris
Raportz
d’Artois
Hamburgh
Charles of
Sweden
Lunden
Scania
Charles
Landscron
Stockholm
Cowbridge
Marlborough
the Hague
Florence
Tuscany
Cadiz
Ceuta
Quebec
Upper Lakes
Lakes Erie
Ontario
French Hispaniola
Dublin
Corke
Connaught
R——M
England
Tower
Prince Frederic
Amelia
Elizabeth
Gibraltar
Buchanan
Moody
Glasgow
New York
Bridestone
Goodman’s Fields
Elizabeth Herring
Scotland
Tyburn
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Genenan Evenine Bos
St. Martin's le Grand
George-Street
Foster Lane
Akes
N. B
London
Michaelzons
Wickham Market
Yarmouth
Tunbridge Wells
Tonbridge-Wells
Mansfield-Street
Anton
Cannonrow
Westminster
l’Anton
New-Boynds
Tunbrigde- Wells
Kent
Adelphi
Mestis
Adam's
Robert-street
London Gazette
Holvano
Flanders
Jon Aoow
Stirling
Old Bailey
Pollen
Fréyle
Hampshire
East Indies
Parliament-street
Brutus Otherly, Esq
Bengal
Lewes
Wm Baddock, Taylor
Boreham-street
Bexhill
William James
Frampton Upon Severn
Holmer
Hereford
Caldecott
John Caldecott
Edinburgh
Monteith
Kilmadock
John Duncan
Robert Brand
Long-acre
S Royal Hospital
Greenwich
Chelsea
Mr. Brand
Margate
London Bridge
India
Consol
Navy
Long Ann
Vauxhall
Lord Lam
Fitzgerald
Crofts
Bate
N.B
J. Williams
Fleetstreet
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