 | Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 pages
...world. 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...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
...world. 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...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,... | |
 | 1808 - 436 pages
...assumed name of Isaac Bickerstaff, it was " to expose all false arts of life; to pull off" the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation ; and to recommend...dedications, that " no man has a better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit for the contempt, of all imposture, than yourself; which qualities render... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pages
...Tatler" was, (as the author observes) « to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises " of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 pages
...laid down by Stcele, which was merely to expose the false arts of life ; to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation; and to recommend...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,... | |
 | 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
...at. 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...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,... | |
 | 1823 - 380 pages
...world. 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...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
...The general purpose of this Paper is to ex- , pose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend...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. 
