... guide ! In vain she points out to us the plain and direct way to truth; vanity, fancy, affectation, and fashion assume her shape, and wind us through fairy-ground to folly and error. These deviations from nature are often attended by serious consequences,... The British Essayists;: The world - Page 85by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
| Edward Moore - English essays - 1772 - 336 pages
...ones : for there is nothing truer than the trite obfervation, " that people are never ri" diculous for being what they really are, but " for affecting...what they really are not." Affectation is the only fource, and, at the fame time, jhe only juftinable object of ridicule. No man whatfoever, be his pretenfions... | |
| 1776 - 278 pages
...feriousconfequences, and always by ridiculous ones : for there is nothing truer than the trite obfervation, " That " people are never ridiculous for being what they really " are, but for affefting what they really are not." Affecbuion is the only fource, and, at the fame time, the only... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1779 - 490 pages
...confequences, and always by ridiculous ones ; for there is nothing truer than the trite obfervation, " that people are never ridiculous for being what "...what they really " are not." Affectation is the only fource, and ac the fame time the only juftifiable object, of ridicule. No man whatfoever, be his pretenfions... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1779 - 490 pages
...conkquences, and always by ridiculous ones; fi)r there is nothing truer than the trite obfervation, “that people are never ridiculous for being what “they really are, but for affecEting what they really “are not.” AffecEtation is the only fource, and at the fame time the... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 292 pages
...deviations from nature are often attended by serious consequences, and always by ridiculous ones: for there is nothing truer than the trite ob.servation, ' that...will, has a natural right to be ridiculous; it is an acquired right, and not to be acquired without some industry : which perhaps is the reason why so many... | |
| English literature - 1804 - 296 pages
...deviations from nature are often attended by lerious consequences, and always by ridiculous ones : for there is nothing truer than the trite observation, " that...will, has a natural right to be ridiculous : it is an acquired right, and not to be acquired without some industry ; which perhaps is the reason why so many... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 296 pages
...for there is nothing truer than the trite ohserration, ' that people are never ridiculous for bein g what they really are, but for affecting what they...time, the only justifiable object of ridicule. No roan whatsoever, be his pretensions what they will, has a natural right to be ridiculous ; it is an... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 418 pages
...deviations from nature are often attended by serious consequences, and always by ridiculous ones : for there is nothing truer than the trite observation, ' that...will, has a natural right to be ridiculous ; it is an acquired right, and not to be acquired without some industry : which perhaps is the reason why so many... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 620 pages
...deviations from nature are often attended by serious consequences, and always by ridiculous ones: for there is nothing truer than the trite observation, ' that...will, has a natural right to be ridiculous ; it is an acquired right, and not to be acquired without some industry : which perhaps is the reason why so many... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 290 pages
...deviations from nature are often attended by serious consequences, and always by ridiculous ones: for there is nothing truer than the trite observation, ' that...really are not.' Affectation is the only source, and, at'the same time, the only justifiable object, of ridicule. No man whatsoever, be his pretensions what... | |
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