The Beauties of ChesterfieldC. Ewer, 1828 - 261 oldal |
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9. oldal
... means ridiculous , unless it be under a fine coat ; nor a weak un- derstanding , unless it assumes the lustre and ornaments of a bright one . Good nature con- ceals and pities the inevitable defects of body or mind , but is not obliged ...
... means ridiculous , unless it be under a fine coat ; nor a weak un- derstanding , unless it assumes the lustre and ornaments of a bright one . Good nature con- ceals and pities the inevitable defects of body or mind , but is not obliged ...
10. oldal
... mean here to consider the affectation of moral virtues , which comes more properly under the definition of hypocrisy , and justly excites our indignation and abhorrence , as a criminal deceit ; but I shall confine myself now to the ...
... mean here to consider the affectation of moral virtues , which comes more properly under the definition of hypocrisy , and justly excites our indignation and abhorrence , as a criminal deceit ; but I shall confine myself now to the ...
17. oldal
... , though they keep within the female province . I should be very sorry to offend , where I only mean to advise and reform ; I therefore hope the fair sex will pardon me , when I 2 * CHESTERFIELD . 17 Affectation in the Female Sex,
... , though they keep within the female province . I should be very sorry to offend , where I only mean to advise and reform ; I therefore hope the fair sex will pardon me , when I 2 * CHESTERFIELD . 17 Affectation in the Female Sex,
19. oldal
... means so much , that her flattery is too gross for self - love to swallow , and her lies too palpa- ble to deceive for a moment ; so that she shocks those she would gain . Mean tricks , shallow cunning , and breach of faith , constitute ...
... means so much , that her flattery is too gross for self - love to swallow , and her lies too palpa- ble to deceive for a moment ; so that she shocks those she would gain . Mean tricks , shallow cunning , and breach of faith , constitute ...
20. oldal
... mean time , her unhappy hearer stifles a thousand gapes , assents univer- sally to whatever she says , in the hope of shortening the conversation , and carefully watches the first favourable opportunity , which any motion in the company ...
... mean time , her unhappy hearer stifles a thousand gapes , assents univer- sally to whatever she says , in the hope of shortening the conversation , and carefully watches the first favourable opportunity , which any motion in the company ...
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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.