 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...it for granted, there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. XXIX. Flowers of rhetorick, in sermons and serious discourses, are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. XXX. When two people... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...it for granted, there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. XXIX. Flowers of rhetorick, in sermons and serious discourses, are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. XXX. When two people... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses , are like the blue and red flowers...but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. It often happens that those are the best people, whose characters have been most injured by slanderers... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...as much generosity if he were a rick man. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons of serious discourses, ate like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to...who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him vrho would reap the profit. It often hapens that those are the best people, whose characters have been... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 pages
...a poor man, I take it for granted, there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses,...like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. When two people... | |
 | 1810 - 570 pages
...at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud ; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured' Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses...prejudicial to him who would reap the profit from it. ' The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world \>, that it gives one the greater... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 pages
...gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, 9 pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit from... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 412 pages
...gratitude in a poor nan, I take it for granted, there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses, are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleas1iog to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. When... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted, there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses,...like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. He who tells a... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 506 pages
...rhetoric, in sermons and serious discourses, are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to them who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. When two people compliment each other with the choice of any thing, each of them generally gets that... | |
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Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit from it. 
