 | George Crabb - 1851 - Počet stránok 556
...Certain follies or vices of fashion are epidemical In almosteveryage; 'Among all the diseases of themind, there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.'— S rt ILL The breath o! mlidclitv в pestilential ; Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust Is meanly... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - Počet stránok 566
...fulsome stuff to please thy itching ear, Survey thy soul, not what thou dost appear, But what thou art. AMONG all the diseases of the mind, there is not one...propensity and inclination to suck in the poison, it can not be but that the whole order of reasonable action must be overturned; for, like music, it *... | |
 | George Crabb - 1854 - Počet stránok 542
...WARTOM Certain follies or vices of fashion are epidemical in almostcvery age; 'Among all the disease« of the mind, there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.'— STEELK. The breath of intidelitv is pestilential ; Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal hist Is meanly... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - Počet stránok 780
...more to fluttering crowds thine ear incline, Eager to dnuk the prtiue which u not thine. , BEIWSTU. AMONG all the diseases of the mind, there is not one more epidemical or more pemuious than the love of flattery. For as where the juices of the body are prepared to receive the... | |
 | Joseph Catafago - 1858 - Počet stránok 368
...habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end. 30. Among all the diseases of the mind, there is not one...epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. The next form of the paragraph is the explanatory. It commences, as in the former model, with an assertion,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - Počet stránok 768
...fur praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations. SIR R. STEELE: Toiler, No. 208. iaments and councils to have the benefit of their...necessarily have, at the same time, the inconveniences the malignant influence, there the disease rages with most violence; so in this distemper of the mind,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - Počet stránok 772
...for praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations. SIR R. STEEI.E: Taller, No. 208. Among all the diseases of the mind, there is not one...more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of (lattery. For as where the juices of the hotly are prepared to receive the malignant influence, there... | |
 | George Crabb - 1881 - Počet stránok 1080
...But first by ardent prayer and clear lustration Purge tbe contagious spots of human weakness. I'HIOR. Among all the diseases of the mind, there is not one...epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. STEELE. So peetiltnUal, so infectious a thins is sin, that it scatters ono poison of its breath to... | |
 | George Crabb - 1882 - Počet stránok 876
...Bat first by ardent prayer and clear lns»raHon Purge Oieeontuffiou* spots of human weakness. 1'BKW. Among all the diseases of the mind, there is not one more f/iii/ftnical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. STEKLE. So ptJftilentiftt, so infections... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - Počet stránok 604
...son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was. — Thackeray. Among all the diseases of the mind, there is not one...epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. — Steele. The lie that flatters I abhor the most. — Cowper. Praise not people to their faces, to... | |
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AMONG all the diseases of the mind, there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. For as where the juices of the body are prepared to receive a malignant influence, there the disease rages with most violence; so in this... 
