 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 páginas
...most troublesome in company to others and themselves. Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners r ;/"Wb %P 4 o }ۿ bN ^: ; sLU ̒at" o C k X N ܊ 5smc pC- T I A f Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation ; as it is generally in books the worst... | |
 | 1880 - 588 páginas
...astonishing how few of them at that time require answering. Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company you please none ; if you only flatter one or two you offend the rest. How many a man by throwing himself to the ground in despair,... | |
 | 1875 - 780 páginas
...which is good in other nationalities. FLATTERY. — Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please...you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. •Westminster Review for Oct., 1874. Page 487. Beautiful Grandmamma. Grandmamma sits in her quaint... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 páginas
...judgment and join the enemy without. SIR R. STEELE: Spectator, No. 238. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the...you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. SWIFT. I have been considering why poets have such ill success in making their court, since they are... | |
 | 1876 - 358 páginas
...international law reform and arbitration. NOTHING is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattejy. If you flatter all the company, you please none ; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. Getting Money. 'The most unfortunate day iu the career of any young man is the day... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 400 páginas
...from the contrary. Among his Hints on Good Manners occur these two : "Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the...the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem." Take the word of Timon of Athens for it, and verily we are all of us guilty in this matter : " Who... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...judgment and join the enemy without. SIR R. STEELE : Spectator, No. 238. Nothing is so great an instance ommentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce,...claimed as true. WHKWELL. The spirit of commentati SWIFT. I have been considering why poets have such ill success in making their court, since they are... | |
 | Lounger in society the pseud - 1881 - 374 páginas
...it is perfectly sincere. Dean Swift says, pithily : ' Nothing is so great an instance of illmanners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please...you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.' But an elegant compliment at an opportune moment, and spoken with an air of frankness, carries with... | |
 | 618 páginas
...Robinson. Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, yon please none ; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.— Swift. It is a fatal requital upon some busy wits, that as they are sharp and sore deceivers, so when... | |
 | Querist - 1882 - 180 páginas
...let those who always loved now love the more. Mocking ls catching. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the...you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. — SKI/t. Let your anger set with the sun, but not rise with it. Moderation is a good safeguard. True... | |
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Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none ; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. 
