 The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited, as I may say, of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want...  Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 25by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...manners and fashions, and to bring us to a servile imitation of none of the best of our neighbours, in some of the worst of their qualities. The dialect...vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pages
...manners and fashions, and to bring us to a servile imitation of none of the best of our neighbours, in some of the worst of their qualities. The dialect...vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...is usually accompanied with undaunted courage and resolution, is in a great measure lost among us. ' The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so sur* Archbishop Tillotson, vol. ii. sermon ip 7. edit, in folio. felted (as I may say) of expressions... | |
 | 1803 - 342 pages
...is usually accompanied with undaunted courage and resolution, is in a great measure lost among us. ' The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled...vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...'and resolution, is in a great measure lost among- us. " The dialect of conversation is noAv-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago, should return into... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 494 pages
...is usually accompanied with undaunted courage and resolution, is in a great measure lost among us. ' The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so sur* Archbishop Tillvtson, vol. ii, sermon ip 7. edit, in •folio. feited (as I may say) of expressions... | |
 | 1808 - 306 pages
...mauners and fashions, and to hring ns to a servile imitation of none of the hest of our neighhours, in some of the worst of their qualities. The dialect...vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 278 pages
...is usually accompanied with undaunted courage and resolution, is in a great measure lost among us. 1 The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled...vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 522 pages
...is usually accompanied with undaunted courage and resolution, is in a great measure lost among us. " The dialect of conversation is, now-a-days, so swelled...vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 522 pages
...usually accompanied with undaunted courage and reso-- lution, is in a great measure lost among us. " The dialect of conversation is, now-a-days, so swelled...vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into... | |
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