The Beauties of ChesterfieldC. Ewer, 1828 - 261 oldal |
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6. oldal
... woman he loves ; which is a proof that every man can get the better of that distraction , when he thinks it worth his while to do so ; and , take my word for it . it is always worth his while . For my own part , I would rather be in ...
... woman he loves ; which is a proof that every man can get the better of that distraction , when he thinks it worth his while to do so ; and , take my word for it . it is always worth his while . For my own part , I would rather be in ...
13. oldal
... woman in refusing to hear them . But how have I seen him skulk at the approach of the real favourite , and betray his conscious- ness of his affected character ! Be it known to Ponderosus , and all those of his turn , that this vanity ...
... woman in refusing to hear them . But how have I seen him skulk at the approach of the real favourite , and betray his conscious- ness of his affected character ! Be it known to Ponderosus , and all those of his turn , that this vanity ...
17. oldal
... woman coxcombs ; those who affect what does not fall within their department , and those who go out of their own natural characters , though they keep within the female province . I should be very sorry to offend , where I only mean to ...
... woman coxcombs ; those who affect what does not fall within their department , and those who go out of their own natural characters , though they keep within the female province . I should be very sorry to offend , where I only mean to ...
18. oldal
... help - mate of a pawnbroker or usurer , pretends to all the accomplishments . that ever adorned man or woman , without the ssession , or even the true knowledge , of any S one of them . She would appear learned , and. 18 CHESTERFIELD .
... help - mate of a pawnbroker or usurer , pretends to all the accomplishments . that ever adorned man or woman , without the ssession , or even the true knowledge , of any S one of them . She would appear learned , and. 18 CHESTERFIELD .
19. oldal
... woman in the world , condemns her own sex for being too trifling . She despises the agreeable levity and cheerfulness of a mixed company ; she will be serious , that she will , and emphatically intimates , that she thinks reason and ...
... woman in the world , condemns her own sex for being too trifling . She despises the agreeable levity and cheerfulness of a mixed company ; she will be serious , that she will , and emphatically intimates , that she thinks reason and ...
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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.