The Beauties of ChesterfieldC. Ewer, 1828 - 261 oldal |
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5. oldal
... civility ; he seems not to know those people to - day , with whom yesterday he appeared to live in intima- cy . He takes no part in the general conversa- tion ; but , on the contrary , breaks into it , from time to time , with some ...
... civility ; he seems not to know those people to - day , with whom yesterday he appeared to live in intima- cy . He takes no part in the general conversa- tion ; but , on the contrary , breaks into it , from time to time , with some ...
48. oldal
... civility as obligations , which he returns with interest ; and resents with passion the little in advertencies of human nature , which he repays with interest too . Even a difference of opinion upon a philosophical subject would provoke ...
... civility as obligations , which he returns with interest ; and resents with passion the little in advertencies of human nature , which he repays with interest too . Even a difference of opinion upon a philosophical subject would provoke ...
143. oldal
... civility , but with great incredulity too : and pay them with compliments , but not with confidence . Do not let your vanity and self- love make you suppose that people become your friends at first sight , or even upon a short ...
... civility , but with great incredulity too : and pay them with compliments , but not with confidence . Do not let your vanity and self- love make you suppose that people become your friends at first sight , or even upon a short ...
147. oldal
... Civility and good - breeding are generally thought , and often used , as synonymous terms , but are by no means so . Good - breeding necessarily implies civility , but civility does not reciprocally imply good- breeding . The former has ...
... Civility and good - breeding are generally thought , and often used , as synonymous terms , but are by no means so . Good - breeding necessarily implies civility , but civility does not reciprocally imply good- breeding . The former has ...
148. oldal
... civility of that village would be considered as brutality at court . A cloistered pedant may form true notions of civility ; but if , amidst the cobwebs of his cell , he pretends to spin a speculative system of good - breeding , he will ...
... civility of that village would be considered as brutality at court . A cloistered pedant may form true notions of civility ; but if , amidst the cobwebs of his cell , he pretends to spin a speculative system of good - breeding , he will ...
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251. oldal - People easily pardon, in young men, the common irregularities of the senses ; but they do not forgive the least vice of the heart. The heart never grows better by age ; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. But should a bad young heart, accompanied with a good head, (which, by the way, very seldom is the case,) really reform in a more advanced age from a consciousness of its folly, as well as of its guilt,...
221. oldal - Marlborough possessed the graces in the highest degree, not to say engrossed them ; for I will venture (contrary to the custom of profound historians, who always assign deep causes for great events) to ascribe the better half of the Duke of Marlborough's greatness and riches to those graces.
85. oldal - I never saw him disguised with liquor in my life. It is true, he is a very large man, and can hold a great deal, which makes the colonel call him, pleasantly enough, a vessel of election.
216. oldal - ... respect, he is exactly the same to his superiors, his equals, and his inferiors ; and therefore, by a necessary consequence, absurd to two of the three. Is it possible to love such a man ? No. The utmost I can do for him, is to consider him as a respectable Hottentot.
5. oldal - What is commonly called an absent man, is commonly either a very weak, or a very affected man ; but be he which he will, he is, I am sure, a very disagreeable man in company.
146. oldal - ... in re. He may possibly, by great accident, now and then succeed, when he has only weak and timid people to deal with ; but his general fate will be, to shock, offend, be hated, and fail. On the other hand...
260. oldal - Every moment may be put to some use, and that with much more pleasure than if unemployed. Do not imagine that by the employment of .time, I mean an uninterrupted application to serious studies. No; pleasures are, at proper times, both as necessary and as useful; they fashion and form you for the world ; they teach you characters, and show you the human heart in its unguarded minutes.