 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
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...frock : it is then he acts with ease, and thinks himself equal to his apparel. — Shenatone. MXCIL 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...poverty, but much worse not to make use of lawful endeavours to avoid it. — Thucidides. MXCI. Mxcii. 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... | |
 | 1832 - 282 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 swelledvwith vanity and compliment, and so surfeited,, as 1 may say, of expressions of ''kindness and... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...manners and fashions, and to bring us to a servile imitation of none of the best of our neighbours, that come from warmer climates. In the same manner,...music as- much as may grace and soften it, but ne of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into... | |
 | 1836 - 1118 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-duys so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as. I may say) ol' expressions... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pages
...is usually accompanied with undaunted courage and resolution, is in a great measure lost among us. •The dialect of conversation is now-adays 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 - 1842 - 944 pages
...manners and fashions, and to bring us to a servile imitation of none of the best of our neighbours, r npw-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 pages
...speaks without any intention to deceive. " The dialect of conversation, "says Archbishop Tillotson, " 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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...courts and palaces, theatres and assemblies, and has no existence, but when she is looked upon. 32. The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled...expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man who lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to... | |
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