...disregard their decrees, and the people have a saying, which has passed into a proverb with them, that it is as well to be out of the world as out of the dominions of fashion. These two goddesses, although they join together in holding the world in thraldom,...

...can see, there's very little fun in most of the dancing that's done now-a-days. We all know that it's as well to be out of the world as out of the fashion; and for them that has the means, it's their bounden duty to show what they are. I would not...

...from Paris. It is addressed to the same lady, and is as follows : " Paris, September, 1768. " 'Tis as well to be out of the world as out of the fashion. So as all here are in mourning for their queen, I mourn also in paper*, nought else. Now are...

...arc governed by it ; while from lisping iips to hoary hairs, the maxim is acknowledged and ibeyed, " It is as well to be out of the world as out of the fashion." With the hardier sex it has in a great degree con¡tituted wealth, and place, and other sordid...

...after God's pattern — the noblest product of the world, — a self-made man. FASHIOK THE proverb that it is as well to be out of the world as out of fashion, is an old one and a mean one ; and it has so damaged the world that the alternative is come...

...These things have no unpleasant consequences for us ; so you must admit our impartiality. No doubt it M as well to be out of the world as out of the fashion. If it were not, why would all these tireless efforts be made ? What Fashion requires, ' fashionable...