 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 - 1819 - 340 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... | |
 | 1822 - 788 pages
...manners and fashions, and to bring us to a servile imitation of none of the best of our neighbours, her is the perfection of wisdom, and whoso watcheth...goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, showet of expressions 6f kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago sriouki return into... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 252 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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1823 - 352 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. TOL. VIII. C feited (as I may say)... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 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 of conversation is now a days so swell'd with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expression» of... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 444 pages
...dignified sincerity. 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 of Conversation is now a days so swell'd with Vanity and Complement, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of... | |
 | 1824 - 284 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...conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and complirnent,.and so surfeited, as I may say, of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man... | |
 | 1827 - 422 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. feited (as I may say) of expressions... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 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 • Archbishop Tillotson,... | |
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