...was a Mr. Stillingfleet, who always wore bluo stockings, and his absence at any timo was so regretted that it used to be said : " We can do nothing without the blue stockings." Tho title was by degrees transferred, first to the clubs of this kind, and then to the ladies who attended...

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...plain, and he always wore blue stockings. He was an excellent converser, and his absence was felt to be so great a loss that it used to be said : " We can...do nothing without the Blue Stockings," and thus by way of pleasantry this title was established. A Frenchman of distinction, whose name is hid in the...

...blue stockings. He was an excellent converser, and his absence was felt to be so great a loes, thnt it used to be said, " We can do nothing without the Blue Stockings," and thns, by way of pleasantry, this title was established. A Frenchman of distinction, whose name is hid...

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...of these societies, when they first commenced, was Mr. Stillingfleet (grandson of the Bishop), whoso dress was remarkably grave ; and in particular it...excellence of his conversation, that his absence was felt so great a loss that it used to be said, " 'We can do nothing without the blue stockings; " and thus...

...they first commenced, was Mr. Stillingfleet (an author of tracts relating to natural history, &c.), whose dress was remarkably grave, and in particular...; " and thus by degrees the title was established. — Sosmell's Life of Johnson, Croker's edition, p. 689. The reader may wonder that only indirect reference...

...Stillingfleet (an author of tracts relating to natural history, &c.), whose dress was remarkably grave, aud in particular it was observed that he wore blue stockings....stockings; " and thus by degrees the title was established. — SosnelVs Life of Johnson, Oroker'a edition, p. 689. C. The reader may wonder that only indirect...

...who wore blue stockings. Such was the excellence of his conversation, and his absence felt to be such a loss, that it used to be said, " We can do nothing...stockings;'" and thus by degrees the title was established. Mrs. Hannah More, in her Poem, " Bos Bleu," has described a Blue Stocking Club, and mentioned those...

...One of the moHt eminent members of those societies, when they first commenced, was Mr. Rtillingfleet, whose dress was remarkably grave, and in particular...it was observed that he wore blue stockings. Such woa tho BOARD [ 154 l BŒOTFA excellence of hie couvereution, that his absence was felt as so great...