 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
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...return into the world again, be would re want a dictionary to help him to understand his own langu and to know the true intrinsic value of the phrase in fashion, would havdly at first believe at what a low rate the highest sir; and expressions of kindness imaginable... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...may be excused if they hare still less for the graceful negligence of Archbishop Tilloteon's.— H. or two ago should return into the world again, he...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 - 1854 - 528 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...or two ago should return into the world again, he ' Great British preacher '.] Deservedly called great, for the manliness of his sense, and the unadorned... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...etill less for the graceful negligenee of Arehb'ishop Tillotson's. — IT. No. 557.] SPECTATOR. 589 or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dietionary to help him to understand his own language and to know the true intrinsic value of the phrase... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 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 that lived an age ' V. Tillotson's Senn. vol. ii. 8d ed. fol. — C. • Great Britith preacher. Deservedly called great,... | |
 | 1855 - 518 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...or two ago should return into the world again, he woiild really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language, and to know the true intrinsic... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 pages
...compliment, aad-ju .iuiftiu.rl (iijl<imj j iji^uf i HIM iiiiiiini nf liiinlni mi mill ill i[ii i in that if a man that lived an age or two ago should...dictionary to help him to understand his own language, ittid tu know the *r««.iatrinsrc vahle of 'the phrase in fashion, and would hardly at first believe... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 704 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 that lived an age 1 V. Tillotson's Serm. vol. ii. 3d ed. foL — C. • Qreat British preacher. . Deservedly called great,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 pages
...now-a-days, so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of ex pressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age ' V. Tillotson's Serm. vol. ii. 8d ed. fol. — C. • Great British preachcr. Deservedly called greut,... | |
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