 The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.  Sir Roger de Coverley, Essays from the Spectator - Pagina xxxdoor Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1899 - 166 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 pagina’s
...the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. No man has a better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit for the contempt of all... | |
 | 1803 - 410 pagina’s
...the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. No man hath a better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit for the contempt of... | |
 | Mark Noble - 1806 - 454 pagina’s
...name of Isaac Bickerstaff, it was " to " expose all false arts of life; to pull oft'the dis" guises of cunning, vanity, and affectation; and '' to recommend...simplicity in our '• dress, our discourse, and our behaviour:" and adds, with a truth not common to dedications, that '•' no man has a better judgment... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pagina’s
...to be foumd in all the work.. The general purpose of the " Tatler" was, (as the author observes) « to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the..." simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." Nothing more was aimed at while Dr. Swift was concerned in it ; nor did the papers rise... | |
 | 1808 - 844 pagina’s
...speaking of the design of the work, under the assumed name of Isaac Bickerstaff, it was " to expose all false arts of life; to pull off the disguises of cunning,...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour:" and adds, with a truth not common to dedications, that " no man has a better judgment for... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 406 pagina’s
...The genera.! purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull- off the di;:gi;iies of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. No man has a better judgment for tlw discovery, or a nobler spirit for the Contempt of all... | |
 | 1808 - 306 pagina’s
...of this periodical paper, whose gay essays are very pleasant, and its serious very instructive, was, to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and ostentation ; and to recommend simplicity in dress, discourse, and hehaviour. STEELE himself produced... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 410 pagina’s
...the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The general purpose of this Paper is, to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and aftectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 pagina’s
...ill-adapted to the general purpose of the paper, as originally laid down by Stcele, which was merely to expose the false arts of life ; to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.* But as this intention was soon broken in upon, and subjects of a more weighty and serious... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pagina’s
...are to be found throughout the work. The general purpose of the Tatler was (as the author observes) " to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and aifectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour."... | |
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