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
| 1853 - 756 pages
...There hath been a long endeavor to transform us into foreign manners and fashions, and to bring us to a servile imitation of none of the best of our neighbors,...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 - 1853 - 594 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...swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited, as 1 may say, of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 554 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 surfeited (as 1 may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should... | |
| 1853 - 524 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 uow-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 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 ' V. Tillotson's Senn. vol.... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 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 kii.dness and respect, that if a man that lived an age 1 V. Tillotson's Serm. voL... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...accompanied with undaunted courage and resolution, is in a great measure lost among us. " The dialeet of conversation is, now-a-days, so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respeet, that if a man that lived an age ' V. Tillotson's Serm. vol.... | |
| 1855 - 518 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... | |
| 1855 - 528 pages
...accompanied with undaunted courage and resolution, is in a great measure lost among us. " The dislect 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... | |
| 1856 - 374 pages
...frock : it is then he acts with ease, and tninks himself equal to his apparel. — Shenstone. 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 it' a man that lived an age or two ago should return into... | |
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