 | Sir Richard Steele - 1786 - 516 pagina’s
...fafhionable vices, which 3Mr" BICKERSTAFF has dpne with a freedom of fpirit that woutd " have loft both its beauty and efficacy had it been pretended to " by Mr. STEELE." — With this laudable fyirit of unijaring cenfure Mr BICKERSTAFF expofes here to ridicule and abhorrence... | |
 | British essayists - 1803 - 306 pagina’s
...my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but au indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele. As to the work itself, the acceptance it has met •with is the best proof of its value; but I should... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 pagina’s
...but at the same time must confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And with a greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...attacking prevailing and fashionable vices, which Mr. Bickerstatf has done with a freedom of spirit, that would have lost both its beauty and efficacy, had... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 406 pagina’s
...make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable vices, which Mr. Bickerstan has done with a freedom of spirit, that would have...beauty and efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. STEKLE. From a scarce pampblet in the Lambeth library supposed to be written by GAY, we have authority... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 pagina’s
...but at the same time must confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking |ire\ ailing ai;d fashionable rices, which Mr. BirktrstafV has done with a freedom of spirit, that... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1809 - 304 pagina’s
...but at the same time must confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele. As to the work itself, the acceptance it has met with is the best proof of its value; but I should... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1809 - 382 pagina’s
...but at the same time must confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...freedom of spirit, that would have lost both its- beauty * To print by subscription was, for some time, & practice peculiar to the English. The first considerable... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 pagina’s
...but at the same time must confess, my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele. As to the work itself, the acceptance it has met with is the best proof of its value ; but I should... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 288 pagina’s
...but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele. As to the work itself, the acceptance it has met with is the best proof of its value ; but I should... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 632 pagina’s
...but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele.-, As to the work itself, the acceptance it has inet with is the best proof of its value ; but I should... | |
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I shall not carry my humility so far as to call myself a vicious man, but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and... 
