 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 Life of Richard Steele - Stran 246avtor: George Atherton Aitken - 1889 - 871 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1804 - 416 strani
...advantage of his authority, to which I owe the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the...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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 strani
...advantage of his authority, to which I owe the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. No man has a better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit for the contempt of all imposture,... | |
 | 1803 - 410 strani
...advantage of his authority, to which I owe the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the...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,... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 454 strani
...name of Isaac Bickerstaff, it was " to " expose all false arts of life; to pull oft'the dis" guises of cunning, vanity, and affectation; and '' to recommend...'• 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"... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 strani
...to be foumd in all the work.. The general purpose of the " Tatler" was, (as the author observes) « to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...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 - 844 strani
...speaking of the design of the work, under the assumed name of Isaac Bickerstaff, it was " to expose all false arts of life; to pull off the disguises of cunning,...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,... | |
 | 1808 - 306 strani
...of this periodical paper, whose gay essays are very pleasant, and its serious very instructive, was, to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and ostentation ; and to recommend simplicity in dress, discourse, and hehaviour. STEELE himself produced... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 406 strani
...authority, to which I owe the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The genera.! purpose of this Paper is 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,... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 410 strani
...advantage of his authority, to which I owe the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The general purpose of this Paper is, to expose the...to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and aftectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 strani
...ill-adapted to the general purpose of the paper, as originally laid down by Stcele, which was merely to expose the false arts of life ; to pull off the...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,... | |
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