 | Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 pages
...the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off 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 pages
...the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off 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 pages
...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...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"... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pages
...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 pages
...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,...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 - 1808 - 406 pages
...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...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. No man has a better judgment for tlw discovery, or a nobler spirit for the Contempt of all imposture,... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 410 pages
...is, to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and aftectation, and to recommend a general 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,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
..." to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and aifectation, 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 pages
...as high a pitch of reputation as it could possibly arrive at. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off 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,... | |
 | 1829 - 804 pages
...acceptance which my labours met with in the world. | The general purpose of this Paper is to ex- , pose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises...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,... | |
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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. 
