 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
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 338 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... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 480 pages
...is usually accompanied with undaunted courage and resolution, is in a great measure lost among us. ' The dialect of conversation is nowadays so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited 1 Tillotson's sermon ' Of Sincerity towards God and Man ' (Works, vol. ii. p. 6, folio ed.). (as I... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1903 - 456 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1908 - 208 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... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 pages
...foreign manners and fashions, and to bring us to 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) with expressions of kindness and... | |
 | Shilleto Richard - 2019 - 464 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... | |
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