 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - 300 páginas
...all experience. A man of worth and name is never fo Jure to pleafe, as when he S 3 heart heart to fay any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praiie from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind v neither my mind, nor my... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 páginas
...if absent. ' IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself,' says Cowley ; ' it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and...reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him.' Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will upon this subject, it generally proceeds from vanity.... | |
 | 1803 - 342 páginas
...as if absent. " IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself, says Cowley ; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and...reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will upon this subject, it generally proceeds from vanity.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 páginas
...TER. -•' ** JT is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself, (says Cowley:) it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's cars to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenor of his discourse be what it will upon this... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 páginas
...edit, vol.ip 289. W. that " It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear any thing of praise from him"." As to the Latin and Greek quotations, they whom such displease,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 páginas
...all the day. XI. OF MYSELF. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and...of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 494 páginas
...if absent ' IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself,' says Cowley ; 'it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and...reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him.' Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will upon this subject, it generally proceeds from vanity.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 páginas
...beautifully written. Of Myself. It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any Character of Hampden. Mr.v Hampden was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be, of the most discerning... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 páginas
...beautifully written. Of Myself. It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to bear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind; neither... | |
 | 1808 - 306 páginas
...nice suhject for a man to speak of himself," says Cowley ; " it grates his own heart to say any ihing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse he what it will upon this suhject, it generally proceeds from vanity.... | |
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IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself,' says Cowley; ' it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. 
