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VGW(HU.772.032
5 Mar 1772:12, 13 (1075)
From the Universal Magazine. On the fatal consequences
arising from the easiness of obtaining credit.
. . . [5 paragraphs criticising vanity and extravagance]
The same vanity which carries people, and especially women,
to public places, with a view of showing themselves, would
prevent their appearing there, which is often unbecoming
both their situation in life and their circumstances. That
woman who could not shine like others in the boxes, at a
concert, at an assembly, at a masquerade, would not be so
desirous and so fond of being seen in those exhibitions of
personal pageantry; she would stay at home, to avoid the
mortification of seeing finer figures than she could be able
to make of herself; she would, of course, mind the business
of her family, neglected by her frequent excursions abroad;
she would fulfill the duties of a wife and mother. . . [1
paragraph]
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