The Beauties of ChesterfieldC. Ewer, 1828 - 261 oldal |
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7. oldal
... possibly , sometimes in no thought at all ( which , I believe , is very often the case with absent people ) , he does not know his most intimate acquaintance by sight , or answers them as if he were at cross purposes . He leaves his hat ...
... possibly , sometimes in no thought at all ( which , I believe , is very often the case with absent people ) , he does not know his most intimate acquaintance by sight , or answers them as if he were at cross purposes . He leaves his hat ...
11. oldal
... possibly , in this case alone , we are kinder to our friends than to ourselves ; since I very much question if a man would love his friend so well if he were faultless , and he would certainly like himself the better for being so . If ...
... possibly , in this case alone , we are kinder to our friends than to ourselves ; since I very much question if a man would love his friend so well if he were faultless , and he would certainly like himself the better for being so . If ...
20. oldal
... possibly it may be thought pre- sumption in a woman to talk at all upon these matters . In the mean time , her unhappy hearer stifles a thousand gapes , assents univer- sally to whatever she says , in the hope of shortening the ...
... possibly it may be thought pre- sumption in a woman to talk at all upon these matters . In the mean time , her unhappy hearer stifles a thousand gapes , assents univer- sally to whatever she says , in the hope of shortening the ...
35. oldal
... by the skill and care of Myn Heer Von Pinchbeck , be in the highest German taste , and may possibly arrive at the one motion that great desideratum in our dis- cipline . The whole , thus ordered , must cer- CHESTERFIELD . 35 35.
... by the skill and care of Myn Heer Von Pinchbeck , be in the highest German taste , and may possibly arrive at the one motion that great desideratum in our dis- cipline . The whole , thus ordered , must cer- CHESTERFIELD . 35 35.
36. oldal
... possibly insinuate , that a waxen army is not likely to stand fire well . To the lady , I answer thus beforehand , that if , in the late times of war , our present army has been of no more use than a waxen one , a waxen one will now ...
... possibly insinuate , that a waxen army is not likely to stand fire well . To the lady , I answer thus beforehand , that if , in the late times of war , our present army has been of no more use than a waxen one , a waxen one will now ...
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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.