 The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.  EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CENTURY ESSAYS - Seite viivon AUSTIN DOBSON - 1883Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 Seiten
...world. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. No man has a better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit for the contempt of all imposture,... | |
 | 1803 - 410 Seiten
...world. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. No man hath a better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit for the contempt of all imposture,... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 446 Seiten
...speaking of the design of the work, under the assumed name of Isaac BickerstafF, it was " to " expose all false arts of life; to pull off the dis" guises of...simplicity in our " dress, our discourse, and our behaviour :" and adds, with a truth not common to dedications, that " no man has a better judgment 'for the dis"... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 454 Seiten
...the assumed name of Isaac Bickerstaff, it was " to " expose all false arts of life; to pull oft'the dis" guises of cunning, vanity, and affectation; and...our '• dress, our discourse, and our behaviour:" and adds, with a truth not common to dedications, that '•' no man has a better judgment for the dis"... | |
 | 1808 - 436 Seiten
...assumed name of Isaac Bickerstaff, it was " to expose all false arts of life; to pull off" the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation ; and to recommend...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour:" and adds, with a truth not common to dedications, that " no man has a better judgment for the discovery,... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 Seiten
...Tatler" was, (as the author observes) « to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises " of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." Nothing more was aimed at while Dr. Swift was concerned in it ; nor did the papers rise above this... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 410 Seiten
...is, to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and aftectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. No man has a better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit for the contempt of all imposture,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 Seiten
...laid down by Stcele, which was merely to expose the false arts of life ; to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation; and to recommend...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.* But as this intention was soon broken in upon, and subjects of a more weighty and serious nature intermingled,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 Seiten
..." to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and aifectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." Nothing more was aimed at, while Dr. Swift was concerned in it ; nor did the papers rise above this... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 Seiten
...at. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. No man has a better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit for the contempt of all imposture,... | |
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