casions theabsurd number of six hung on behind, claspingeach others waists ; an uncomfortable mob,and a living satire on the pride which hiredand supported such cumbrous adjuncts. From the same print which has furnished uswith this example of the pomposity of high lifein the reign of Anne, we… … Fig. 13 is still more remarkable than the firstfor the quantity of useless footmen about it,and for the ingenious and dangerous manner inwhich a fifth is added to the four who are souncomfortably crammed behind, and who isseated in a most uneasy and tottering positionupon the axletree in front.…
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