 Style is the dress of thoughts ; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would, if dressed in rags, dirt,...  Letters, Sentences, and Maxims - Σελίδα 234των Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1888 - 327 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 σελίδες
...received as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would, if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. It is not every understanding that can judge of matter...elegancies of style, to the strongest matter in the world, ill-worded and ill-delivered. Your business is Negotiation abroad and Oratory in the House of Commons... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 σελίδες
...received as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would, if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. It is not every understanding that can judge of matter...elegancies of style, to the strongest matter in the world, ill-worded and ill-delivered. Your business is Negotiation abroad and Oratory in the House of Commons... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1897 - 168 σελίδες
...wellproportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. It is not every understanding that can judge 5 of matter; but every ear can and does judge, more...strongest matter in the world, ill worded and ill 10 delivered. You have with you three or four of the best English Authors, Dryden, Atterbury, and Swift;... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope - 1901 - 514 σελίδες
...received as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would, if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. It is not every understanding that can judge of matter...elegancies of style, to the strongest matter in the world, illworded and ill-delivered. Your business is negotiation abroad, and oratory in the House of Gommons... | |
 | 1912 - 742 σελίδες
...if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. It is not every understanding that can judge of matter, hut every ear can and does judge, more or less, of style;...moderate matter, adorned with all the beauties and elegances of style, to the strongest matter in the world, ill-worded and ill-delivered. The Use of... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 σελίδες
...subject, pretty near akin to them, and which, I am sure, you are full as deficient in — I mean, style. or write to the public, I should prefer moderate matter,...elegancies of style, to the strongest matter in the world, ill-worded and ill-delivered. Your business is negotiation abroad and oratory in the House of Commons... | |
 | Hubert A. Hagar - 1914 - 120 σελίδες
...ill-received as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would, if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. It is not every understanding that can judge of matter,...elegancies of style, to the strongest matter in the world, ill-worded and ill-delivered. Joseph Addison, the great English essayist, was another who valued the... | |
 | Hubert Adonley Hagar - 1914 - 386 σελίδες
...ill-received as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would, if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. It is not every understanding that can judge of matter,...elegancies of style, to the strongest matter in the world, ill-worded and ill-delivered. Joseph Addison, -the great English essayist, was another who valued the... | |
 | Hubert Adonley Hagar, Rupert Pitt SoRelle - 1913 - 204 σελίδες
...ill-received as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would, if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. It is not every understanding that can judge of matter, but every ear can and docs judge, more or less, of style; and were I either to speak or write to the public, I should prefer... | |
 | Percy Waldron Long - 1915 - 156 σελίδες
...received as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would, if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. It is not every understanding that can judge of matter;...elegancies of style, to the strongest matter in the world, ill-worded and ill-delivered .... I confess (and I believe most people are of my mind) that if a speaker... | |
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