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
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 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... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...can hardly escape the censure of want of breeding. TILLOTSON : Sermon on Sincerity, July 29, 1694. The dialect of conversation is nowadays so swelled...vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that il a man that lived an age or two ago should return into... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...he can hardly escape the censure of want of breeding. TlLLOTSON: Sermon on Sincerity, July 29, 1694. The dialect of conversation is nowadays so swelled...vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, thai if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pages
...usually accompanied with undaunted courage and resolution, is in a great measure lost among us. 6. " 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... | |
| George Gilbert Ramsay - 1885 - 388 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... | |
| 1888 - 576 pages
...foreign manners and fashions, and to bring us to servile imitation of none of the best of our neighboars, 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) with expressions of kindness and... | |
| 1891 - 110 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... | |
| 1891 - 104 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... | |
| A. Meserole - 1896 - 450 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... | |
| George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 pages
...Foreign Manners 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 nowa" days so swelTd with Vanity and Compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of... | |
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