 The dialect of conversation is nowadays 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 a...  Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 25by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1803 - 342 pages
...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...true intrinsic value of the phrase in fashion; and would hardly, at first, believe at what a low rate the highest strains and expressions of kindness... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...conversation is noAv-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...true intrinsic value of the phrase in fashion ; and would hardly, at first, believe at what a low rate the highest strains and expressions of kindness... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...Tillotson, ' is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and coirir plimenl, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man...again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to underT sUnd his own language, and to knowthe true intrinx 4 slSic value of the phrase in fashion; and... | |
 | 1808 - 306 pages
...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...true intrinsic value of the phrase in fashion, and would hardly at first helieve at what a low rate the highest strains and expressions of kindness imaginahle... | |
 | 1810 - 612 pages
...conversation is now so swelled with vanity and compliment, that if a man who lived an age or two ago were to return into the world again, he would really want...understand his own language, and to know the true intrinsic meaning of the phrases in fashion, and would hardly at first believe at what a low rate the highest... | |
 | 1810 - 596 pages
...conversation is now so swelled with vanity and compliment, that if a man who lived an age or two ago were to return into the world again, he would really want...help him to understand his own language, and to know tin; true intrinsic meaning of the phrases in fashion, and would hardly at first believe at what a... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 522 pages
...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...world again, he would really want a dictionary to * Great British preacher."] Deservedly called great, for the manliness of his sense, and the unadorned... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 522 pages
...style, may be excused if they have still less for the graceful negligence of Archbishop Tillotson's. help him to understand his own language, and to know...true intrinsic value of the phrase in fashion ; and would hardly, at first, believe at what a low rate the highest strains and expressions of kindness... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...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...true intrinsic value of the phrase in fashion, and would hardly at first believe at what a low rate the highest strains and expressions of kindness imaginable... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 274 pages
...and so sur* Archbishop Tillotson, vol. ii. sermon i. p 7. edit, in folio. feited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man...lived an age or two ago should return into the world a^ain, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language, and to know the... | |
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