 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.  The school of action; a comedy - Σελίδα 192των Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 696 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1803 - 410 σελίδες
...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. No man hath a better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit for the contempt of all imposture, than... | |
 | 1804 - 416 σελίδες
...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. No man hath a better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit for the contempt of all imposture, than... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 454 σελίδες
...to " expose all false arts of life; to pull oft'the dis" guises of cunning, vanity, and affectation; and '' to recommend a general 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"... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 406 σελίδες
...to expose the false arts of life, to pull- off the di;:gi;iies of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress,...and our behaviour. No man has a better judgment for tlw discovery, or a nobler spirit for the Contempt of all imposture, than yourself; which qualities... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 σελίδες
...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." Nothing more was aimed at while Dr. Swift was concerned in it ; nor did the papers rise above this... | |
 | 1808 - 436 σελίδες
...to expose all 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:" and adds, with a truth not common to dedications, that " no man has a better judgment for the discovery,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1809 - 382 σελίδες
...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,...better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit ibr the contempt of all imposture, than yourself; which qualities render you the most proper patron... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 σελίδες
...merely 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.* But as this intention was soon broken in upon, and subjects of a more weighty and serious nature intermingled,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 256 σελίδες
..." 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." Nothing more was aimed at while Swift was concerned in it ; nor did the papers rise above this design... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 σελίδες
...author stated, ' 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.' Steele, who had then reached his thirty-eighth year, was qualified for his task by a knowledge of the... | |
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