 Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it...  The Spectator - Page 1311726Full view - About this book
 | William Rushton - English language - 1869 - 352 pages
...be anything is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality as to have it ; and if a man have it not, il is ten to one but he is discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labours to seem to have... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...be anything, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to...and if a man have it not, it is ten to one but he is discovered to want it, and then all his paius and labour to seem to have it are lost. There is something... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 568 pages
...be anything, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to...and if a man have it not, it is ten to one but he is discovered to waut it, and then all his pains and labour to seem to have it are lost. There is something... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 572 pages
...be anything, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it ; and if a man have it not, it ii tea to one but he is discovered to want it, and then all bis pains and labour to seem to have it... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1872 - 250 pages
...would seem to be. Beside?, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a ;;uod quality as to have it; and if a man have it not, it is ten to one but he is discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labours to s. em to have it are lost.' Here the two... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1874 - 568 pages
...to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, aa to have it ; and if a man have it not, it is ten to one but he is discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labour to seem to have it are lost. There is something... | |
 | T. Matthay - 1875 - 240 pages
...be what he would seem to be. Besides,26 it is often as troublesome 21 to support 22 the pretence 23 of a good quality, as to have it ; and if a man have it not, it is most likely2* he will be discovered to want 25 it, and then all his labour to seem to have it is lost.... | |
 | Joseph Henry Gilmore - English language - 1876 - 128 pages
...too many " it's," and their reference is vacillating and obscure. "It is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality as to...and if a man have it not, it is ten to one but he is discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labors to seem to have it are lost." William Cobbett... | |
 | Robert Skakel Knight - 1876 - 192 pages
...be anything, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to...and if a man have it not, it is ten to one but he is discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labour to seem to have it are lost. There is something... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...be anything, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides that it is many times as troublesome H . discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labour to seem to have it are lost. There is something... | |
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