| John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...acquiefcence in other people's, preferve dignity. Vulgar, low expreffions, awkward motions and addrefs, vilify, as they imply either a very low turn of mind, or low education, and low company. Frivolous curiofity about trifles, and a laborious attention to little... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...acquiefcence in other people's, preferve dignity. Vulgar, low exprefiions, aukward motions and addreis, vilify, as they imply either a very low turn of mind, or low education, and low company. Frivolous curicfity about trifles, and a laborious attention to little... | |
| 1797 - 522 pages
...acquiefcence in other people's, jjicieive dignity. Vulgar, low expreflions, aukward motions and addrefs, vilify, as they imply either a very low turn of mind, or lov cducntinn, and low company. Frivolous curicfity about trifles, and a laborious attention to little... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Books and reading - 1801 - 474 pages
...acquiefcense in other people's, prefexve dignity. Vulgar, low «xpreflions, awkward motions and addrefs, vilify, as they imply, either a very low turn of mind, or low education, and low company. Frivolous curiofity about trifles, and a laborious attention to little... | |
| Solomon Hodgson - Conduct of life - 1806 - 362 pages
...acquiefcence to other people's, preferve dignity. ' , Vulgar, low expreffions, awkward motions and addrefs, vilify, as they imply either a very low turn of mind, or low education and low company. Frivolous curiofity about trifles, and a laborious attention to little obje&s,... | |
| Conduct of life - 1806 - 360 pages
...deierve a moment's thought, lower a man ; who from Vulgar, low exprcffions, awkward motions and addrefs, vilify, as they imply either a very low turn of mind, or low education and low company. thence thence is thought, (and not unjuftly) incapable of greater matters.... | |
| Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...sneer and contempt ; nor in abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation, which are always degrading. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a...acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity. As to similes, we see with what effect one of them is made use of by WARBURTON, to shew how soon the... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complainant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity....they imply either a very low turn of mind, or low education, and low company. Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and a laborious attention to little... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 408 pages
...and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a eomplaisant aequieseenee in other people's, preserve dignity. Vulgar low expressions,...they imply either a very low turn of mind, or low edueation, and low eompany. Frivolous euriosity about trifles, and a laborious attention to little... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1815 - 360 pages
...indiscriminate asr mentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence to other people's ; preserve dignity. Vulgar, low expressions , awkward motions and address vilify,... | |
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