| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1803 - 886 pages
...immense superficies, had, by length of time, lost its elasticity, and its brim began to droop in such a manner, as to prevent his being able to view the...be endured by an optician; he therefore took a pair officers, and cut it oft' by the Ixidy of the hat, leaving a little to the trout, ivhich lie dexterously... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1810 - 842 pages
...time, lost its elasticity, and its brim began to droop in such a manner, as to prevent his being ible to view the objects before him in a direct line: this was not to be endured by au optician; he therefore took a pair of sheers, and cut it off by the body of the hat, leaving a little... | |
| 1825 - 458 pages
...elasticity, and tbs brim of it began to droop in such a. manner as to prevent his being able to vie* objects before him in a direct line. This was not to be sodurad by an optician : he therefore took a pair of sheen, and cut it round close by the body of the... | |
| William Hone - Calendars - 1827 - 858 pages
...immense superficies, had, by length of time, lost its elasticity, and its brim began to droop in such a manner as to prevent his being able to view the...endured by an optician ; he therefore took a pair of sheers, and cut it off by the body of the hat, leaving a little to the front, which he dexterously... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1830 - 868 pages
...immense superficies, had, by length of time, lost its elasticity, and its brim began to droop in such a manner as to prevent his being able to view the...endured by an optician ; he therefore took a pair of sheers, and cut it off by the body of the hat, leaving a little to the front, which he dexterously... | |
| Eneas Mackenzie - 1834 - 502 pages
...lost its elasticity, and the brim of it began to droop in such a manner as to prevent him from viewing the objects before him in a direct line. This was...endured by an optician : he therefore took a pair of shears, and cut it round close to the body of the hat, leaving a little to the front, which he dexterously... | |
| Eneas Mackenzie, Marvin Ross - Durham (England : County) - 1834 - 482 pages
...lost its elasticity, and the brim of it began to droop in such a manner as to prevent him from viewing the objects before him in a direct line. This was not to he endured by an optician : he therefore took a pair of shears, and cut it round close to the body... | |
| William Emerson - Mechanical engineering - 1836 - 498 pages
...of time, lost its elasticity, and the brim of it began to droop in such a manner, as to prevent him being- able to view the objects before him in a direct...endured by an optician ; he, therefore, took a pair of shears, and cut it round close to the body of the hat, leaving a little to the front, which he dexterously... | |
| William Hone - 1837 - 936 pages
...immense superficies, had, by length of time, lost its elasticity, and its brim began to droop in such a manner as to prevent his being able to view the...endured by an optician ; he therefore took a pair of sheers, and cut it off by the body of the hat, leaving a little to the front, which he dexterously... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1837 - 874 pages
...immense superficies, had, by length of time, lost its elasticity, and its brim began to droop in such a manner as to prevent his being able to view the...endured by an optician ; he therefore took a pair of sheers, and cut it off by the body of the hat, leaving a little to the front, which he dexterously... | |
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