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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 29

British essayists - 1802 - 322 pages
...affront. They are, in short, overgrown children, and continue so in the most advanced age. Far be it from me to insinuate, what some ill-bred authors have...sore and jealous. There is another very irascible sqrt of human animals, whose madness proceeds from pride. These are generally the people, who having...
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The British Essayists, Volume 29

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 314 pages
...peace (which, by the way, every man is, till the authority of a magistrate can be procured) shouTo* forcibly seize these madmen, and confine them in the...character. The consciousness of their guilt makes them both sora and jealous. There is another very irascible sort of human animals, whose madness proceeds from...
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The British Essayists;: The world

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 312 pages
...authority of a magistrate can be procured) should forcibly seize these madmen, and confine them ia the mean time, in some dark closet, vault, or coal-hole....create themselves gentlemen, and are scrupulously tenuer of the rank and dignity which they have not. They require the more respect, from being conscious...
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The British Essayists;: The world

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 318 pages
...conservators of the peaca (which, by the way, every man is, till the authority of a magistrate cuu be procured) should forcibly seize these madmen, and...character. The consciousness of their guilt makes them both sores and jeaious. There is another very irascible sort of human animals, whose madness proceeds from...
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World

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 304 pages
...no other x» aaoae, flows from various causes, of which I shall sr»o"W enumerate the most general. me to insinuate, what some ill-bred authors have bluntly...jealous. There is another very irascible sort of human anix3 mals, whose madness proceeds from pride. These are generally the people, who having just fortunes...
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The Beauties of Chesterfield

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1828 - 270 pages
...affront. They are, in short, overgrown children, and continue so in the most advanced age. Par be it from me to insinuate, what some illbred authors have...makes them both sore and jealous. There is another and very irascible sort of human animals, whose madness proceeds from pride. These are generally the...
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The Beauties of Chesterfield: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Esq. Alfred Howard - 1831 - 306 pages
...the least contradiction, having neither arguments nor words to reply with ; and the animal part ef their composition bursts out into furious explosions,...part of their character. The consciousness of their guDt makes them both sore and jealous. There is another and very irascible sort of human animals, whose...
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Letters: Miscellanies

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 582 pages
...a magistrate can be procured, should forcibly seize these madmen, and confine them in the meantime in some dark closet, vault, or coal-hole. Men of nice...makes them both sore and jealous. There is another and very irascible sort of human animals, whose madness proceeds from pride. These are generally the...
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Essays of British Essayists, Including Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

English essays - 1900 - 492 pages
...madmen, and confine them, in the mean time, in some dark closet, vault, or coal-hole. Men of nice honor, without one grain of common honesty (for such there are), are wonderfully combustible. The honorable is to support and protect the dishonest part of their character. The consciousness of their...
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English Prose from Mandeville to Ruskin

William Peacock - English literature - 1903 - 408 pages
...frequently end in assault and battery, to the great emolument of the Round-house and Crown office. Men of nice honour, without one grain of common honesty...consciousness of their guilt makes them both sore and jealous. I have known many young fellows, who, at their first setting out in the world, or in the army, have...
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