 Amongst too many other Instances of the great Corruption and Degeneracy of the Age wherein we live, the great and general want of Sincerity in Conversation is none of the least. The World is grown so full of Dissimulation and Compliment, that Mens...  Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 25by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Catafago - 1858 - 368 pages
...rusty piece of iron that lies in his way by accident." • — Spectator, No. 505. II. (1.) " Among too many other instances of the great corruption and degeneracy of the age in which we live, the great and general want of sincerity in conversation is none of the least. (2.)... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - 1865 - 414 pages
...too, were instant and frequent in their endeavours to denounce and check falsehood and insincerity. " Amongst too many other instances of the great corruption and degeneracy of the age wherein we live," writes Sir Richard Steele in 1711, "the great and 294 To return from this digression. When I asserted... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1870 - 420 pages
...fed them worse. I described, as well as I could, our way of riding, the shape and general insincerity in conversation is none of the least. The world is...full of dissimulation and compliment that men's words arc hardly any signification of their thoughts ; and if any man measure his words by his heart, and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...\V. TEMI'LE. In conversation, humour is more lhan wit, easiness more lhan knowledge. SIR W. TEMPLE. Amongst too many other instances of the great corruption...age wherein we live, the great and general want of sinceiily in conversation is none of Ihe least. The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment,... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1885 - 388 pages
...EXERCISE CCCXXXVIII. Amongst too many instances of the great corruption and degeneracy of the age in which we live, the great and general want of sincerity in conversation is not the least. The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly... | |
 | 1900 - 570 pages
...their necessity. — (Barrow's Works.) JOHN TILLOTSON. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, b. 1630, d. 1694. Amongst too many other instances of the great corruption...conversation is none of the least. The world is grown ». full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts;... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1903 - 456 pages
...Conversation. Amongst too many instances of the great corruption and degeneracy of the age in which we live, the great and general want of sincerity in conversation is not the least. The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1908 - 208 pages
...and the good man chastised the great wit in such a manner that he was able to speak as follows : " Amongst too many other instances of the great corruption...conversation is none of the least. The world is grown BO full of dissimulation and compliment that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts... | |
 | Harriet Devine, Harriet Devine Jump - 2003 - 456 pages
...419). A passage from Archbishop Tillotson's Sermons on Sincerity receives the following treatment: Amongst too many other instances of the great corruption...least. The World is grown so full of Dissimulation and Complement, that Mens words are hardly any signification of their thoughts; and if any Man measure... | |
 | Jane Hodson - 2007 - 244 pages
...case.75 A passage from Archbishop Tillotson's Sermons on Sincerity receives the following treatment: Amongst too many other instances of the great corruption...The World is * grown so full of Dissimulation and Complement, that Mens words are * hardly any * signification of their thoughts; and if any Man * measure... | |
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