 | Several Hands - 1774 - 642 pages
...to know, but which yon rriuft, with the útmoft care, conceal ; and never feem to know. Women, then, are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle, and fometimes wit ; but for Ibiid reafoning, good fen/e, I- never in my life knew one that had.it,... | |
 | Art - 1796 - 580 pages
...denied the exigence of any reafonable woman : and, in one of his letters, is the following palfage : " Women are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle, and fometimes wit ; but for folk!, reafoning, good fenle, I never in my life knew one that had it,... | |
 | English literature - 1790 - 820 pages
...following piclure to be found in the polite and gallant Cheiler field. * Women," fays his lordillip, " are only children of a larger growth. They have an entertaining; tattle, fometimes wit, but for folld rcafonini{, and good fenfe, I never in my life knew »>ne that had it, or who a£led or reafoned... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 708 pages
...married to the elm, like other wives, she is fund of gadding abroad and seeking a new assuciate." « Women are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle and sometimes wit ; but for solid, reasoning, good sense, 1 never in my life knew one that bad it,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1827 - 420 pages
...you to know, but which you must, with the utmost care, conceal ; and never seem to know. Women, then, are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit ; but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never in my life knew one that had it, or... | |
 | Woman - 1835 - 758 pages
...courtier, who passed a life in the polite world, and studied human nature, not without some success : " Women are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit ; but for solid reasoning and sound sense, I never in my life knew one that had it;... | |
 | Criticism - 1843 - 644 pages
...his own short-lived sway, and the indifferent figure he made in his decline ! Of women he says : " Women are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit, but for solid reasoning, good sense, I never knew in my life one that had it, or... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...you to know, but which you must, with the utmost care, conceal; and never seem to know. Women, then, are only children] of a larger growth; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit; hud for solid reasoning, good sense, I never knew in my life one that had it, on... | |
 | Literature - 1865 - 740 pages
...himself to be a prodigious favourite. By way of a joke, we will have one of these passages: "Women, then, are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit ; but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never knew in my life one that had it, or... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1870 - 292 pages
...you to know, but which you must, with the utmost care, conceal; and never seem to know. Women, then, are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit; but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never in my life knew one that had it, or... | |
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Women, then, are only children of a larger growth ; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit; but for solid, reasoning good sense, I never in my life knew one that had it, or who reasoned or acted consequentially for four and twenty hours together. 
