 | Great Britain - 1710 - 488 pages
...you when you feemed any Thing dull. Mofl Writers, like the Generality of Paul LorrainV Saints, feew to place a peculiar Vanity in dying hard. But you, «Sir, to /hew a good Example to your Brethren, have not only confcjfid, but of your own Accord mended the Indittwent.... | |
 | Tatler - 1754 - 338 pages
...you when you fetufd any thing dull. Moft Writers, like the Generality of Paul LorrainV Saints, feem to place a peculiar Vanity in dying hard. But you, Sir,. to fiew a good Example to your Brethren, have not only confejjed, tmt of your oit:n Accord mended the... | |
 | British essayists - 1803 - 342 pages
...Sir, " It must be allowed, that Esquire Bickerstaff is of all authors the most ingenuous. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake,...to pardon this expression, for the same reason for whicn you once desired us to excuse you., when you seemed any thing dull. Most writers, like the generality... | |
 | English essays - 1804 - 450 pages
...SIB, * IT must be allowed, that Esquire Bickerstaff is of all authors the most ingenuous. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake,...you once desired us to excuse you, when you seemed anything dull. Most writers, like the generality of Paul Lorraine's saints," seem to place a peculiar... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 346 pages
...sin, ' It must be allowed, that Esquire BickerstafT, is of all authors the most ingenuous. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake,...of Paul Lorraine's Saints, seem to place a peculiar va. nity in dying hard. But you, sir, to shew a good example to your brethren, have not only confessed,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 pages
...SIR, " IT must be allowed, that Esquire Bickerstaff is of all others the most ingenuous. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake,...Paul Lorraine's* saints, seem to place a peculiar * Paul Lorraine was the ordinary of Newgate. vanity in dying hard. But you, sir, to shew a good example... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 562 pages
...SIR, " IT must be allowed, that Esquire Bickerstaff is of all .others the most ingenuous. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake,...for the same reason for which you once desired us to excuse-you, when you seemed any thing dull. Most writers, like the generality of Paul Lorraine's* saints,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 342 pages
...SIR, ' It must be allowed, that Esquire Bickerstaff is of all authors the most ingenuous. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake,...to place a peculiar vanity in dying hard. But you, sit, to show a good example to your brethren, have not only confessed, but of your own accord mended... | |
 | 1822 - 496 pages
...SIR, ' IT must be allowed that esquire Bickerstaff is of all authors the most ingenuous. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake,...thing dull. Most writers, like the generality of Paul ' Lor• In several editions this name has been erroneously printed Claude Lorraine. In the folio,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 518 pages
..." SlE, "XT must be allowed, that Esquire Bickerstaff is of all others the most ingenuous. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake,...you once desired us to excuse you, when you seemed anything dull. Most writers, like the generality of Paul Lorraine's* saints, seem to place a peculiar... | |
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It must be allowed, that Esquire Bicker'staff is of all authors the most ingenuous. There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the world see them to be in downright nonsense. You will be pleased, Sir, to pardon this expression,... 
