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" The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want... "
The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers - Page 209
by British essayists - 1802
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The Spectator, Volume 8

George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 38 pages
...us. The Dialect of Conversation is nowadays so swelled with Vanity and Compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of Expressions of Kindness and Respect,...understand his own Language, and to know the true intrinsick Value of the Phrase in fashion ; and would hardly, at first, believe at what a low Rate...
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The Spectator, Volume 2

George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 pages
...The Dialect of Conversation is now-'a^ days so swell'd with Vanity and Compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of Expressions of Kindness and Respect, that if a Man that lived an Age or two ago shou'd return into the World again, he would really want a Dictionary to help him to understand his...
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The Spectator, Volume 2

George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 pages
...Qualities* The Dialect of Conversation is nowa" days so swelTd with Vanity and Compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of Kindness and Respect, that if a Man that lived an Age or two ago shou'd return into the World again, he would really want a Dictionary to help him to understand his...
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The Spectator, Volume 8

George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 480 pages
...surfeited 1 Tillotson's sermon ' Of Sincerity towards God and Man ' (Works, vol. ii. p. 6, folio ed.). (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect,...language, and to know the true intrinsic value of tke phrase in fashion ; and would hardly, at first, believe at what a low rate the highest strains...
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The Spectator, Volume 5

George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 338 pages
...us* The Dialect of Conversation is now/a/days so swelled with Vanity and Compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of Expressions of Kindness and Respect,...understand his own Language, and to know the true intrinsick Value of the Phrase in fashion ; and would hardly, at first, believe at what a low Rate...
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The British classical authors: with biographical notices. On the basis of a ...

Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...dialect ' of conversation is now-a-dayB so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited, as eo I may say, of expressions of kindness and respect,...again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to 65 understand his own language, and to know the true intrinsic value of the phrase in fashion; and...
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Composition and Style

Robert D. Blackman - Authorship - 1908 - 328 pages
...conversation is now-a-days so swell'd with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) with expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man...understand his own language, and to know the true intriusick value of the phrase in fashion, and would hardly at first believe at what a low rate the...
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