The Beauties of ChesterfieldC. Ewer, 1828 - 261 oldal |
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28. oldal
... desire no greater step towards the reformation of manners for the next twenty years than that our people should have no vices but their own . The blockhead , who affects wisdom , because nature has given him dulness , becomes ridicu ...
... desire no greater step towards the reformation of manners for the next twenty years than that our people should have no vices but their own . The blockhead , who affects wisdom , because nature has given him dulness , becomes ridicu ...
29. oldal
... desire ; their lan- guage , however inelegant , is intelligible , and the half - pay captain understands it . He ad- dresses his vows to her vanity , which assures her they are sincere . She pities him , and prefers him to credit ...
... desire ; their lan- guage , however inelegant , is intelligible , and the half - pay captain understands it . He ad- dresses his vows to her vanity , which assures her they are sincere . She pities him , and prefers him to credit ...
37. oldal
... desire , that the present set of officers may keep the keys , to wind up their several regiments , troops , or companies ; and that a master key to the whole army be lodg- ed in the hands of the general in chief for the time being , or ...
... desire , that the present set of officers may keep the keys , to wind up their several regiments , troops , or companies ; and that a master key to the whole army be lodg- ed in the hands of the general in chief for the time being , or ...
63. oldal
... desire , as far as pos- sible , to enjoy them exclusively , and to avail themselves of the simplicity , the ignorance , and the prejudices , of the vulgar , who have neither the same strength of mind , nor the same advantages of ...
... desire , as far as pos- sible , to enjoy them exclusively , and to avail themselves of the simplicity , the ignorance , and the prejudices , of the vulgar , who have neither the same strength of mind , nor the same advantages of ...
102. oldal
... desire that we should meet upon unequal terms , which must be the case were we to meet to - morrow . At present I unfor- tunately weigh four - and - twenty stone , and I guess that you do not exceed twelve . From this circumstance ...
... desire that we should meet upon unequal terms , which must be the case were we to meet to - morrow . At present I unfor- tunately weigh four - and - twenty stone , and I guess that you do not exceed twelve . From this circumstance ...
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absurd acquaintance affected apoplexy army attention beauty believe BELVILLE birth body called casuistry character civility colours common sense confess consequently considerable contempt contrary conversation countenance coxcombs decorum degree distinguished dress drink Duke of Marlborough ears endeavour equally esteem eyes fair sex fashion favour fear folly fools fortitèr fortune friendship gentleman give glass good-breeding hath heart honour Jacobite justice justly knave knowledge ladies latter learning least libertine live Lord LORD BOLINGBROKE Louis XIV maître d'hôtel mandarin mankind manner means ment merit mind minister moral nature never object observed opinion passions perhaps person pleasure possibly present racter rank reason respect ridiculous scurvy seems sentiment shining Sir Robert Walpole soaker suavitèr in modo sure taste tell thing thought tickler tion true truth utmost vanity vices virtue Voltaire weak whole wine woman word
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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.