 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 388 Seiten
...troublesome in company to others and themselves. Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none ;...you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. Where the company meets, I am confident... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 398 Seiten
...troublesome in company to others and themselves. Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none ;...you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. Where the company meets, I am confident... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 386 Seiten
...in company to others and themselves. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flat. tery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you aflVout the rest. Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. Where the company meets,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 Seiten
...troublesome in company to others and themselves. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none :...you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. Where the company meets, I am confident... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 562 Seiten
...troublesome in company to others and themselves. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery.' If you flatter all the company, you please none :...you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. Where the company meets, I am confident... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 Seiten
...to make one book. — Johnson. MDxxxvm. 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. — Swifi. MDXXXIX. The same God, to whom we are but tenants-at-will for the whole, requires but the... | |
 | Golden rules - 1835 - 44 Seiten
...best title to our respect. Flattery. — 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. — -Swift. Intemperance. — Food improperly taken, not only produces original diseases, but afford... | |
 | Theodore Edward Hook - 1842 - 1020 Seiten
...appreciation of talent, or that his own qualities, like those of wine, had improved proportionably with his age. Swift sets down flattery as an instance...it could never be practised except when they were tete-a-tfle. Besides, it must be confessed that the moppet had tact ; and in all her advances towards... | |
 | 564 Seiten
...ninch and ¡take little. — Johnton. Nothing is ко 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. — Swift. Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity. In gluttony... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 Seiten
...troublesome in company to others and themselves. 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 all'ront the rest. Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. Where the company meets,... | |
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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. 
