I have often thought, that, if I kept a seraglio, the ladies should all wear linen gowns, or 'cotton; I mean stuffs made of vegetable substances. I would have no silk; you cannot tell when it is clean: it will be very nasty before it is perceived to be... The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson - Página 215 por James Boswell - 1813 - 460 páginas Vista completa -
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