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" Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it; and if a man have it not, it is ten to one but he is discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labour to seem to have it is lost. "
Rhetoric: Its Theory and Practice. "English Style in Public Discourse" - Page 248
by Austin Phelps, Henry Allyn Frink - 1895 - 317 pages
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...pretends to ? for to counterfeit and dissemble is to put on the appearance of some real excellency. Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome...
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La Belle Assemblée, Or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine, Volume 3

Fashion - 1807 - 472 pages
...of l aft inlexibie vigilance. Dr. Tillotson's advice, •c the long run, exceU sll substitute, — "The best way in the world for a man to seem to be any tbing, is really to be what he would seem to be." Had Dr. Johnson studied the doctiine of Lord...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...pretends to ? for to counterfeit and dissemble is to put on the appearance of some real excellency. Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]; with notes, and a general index

Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...pretends to ? for to counterfeit and dissemble, is to pnt on the appearance of some real excellency. Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides that it is many limes as troublesome to...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...pretends to ? for to counterfeit and dissemble, is to put on the appearance of some real excellency. Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing, is really to be what we would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome...
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Elegant extracts, Volume 55

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...pretends to ? for to counterfeit and dissemble, is to put on the appearance of some real excellency. Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing, is really to be what we would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...counterfeit and dissemble, is to p.ut on the appearance of some real excellency. Now, the best way for a man to seem to be anything, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, it is often as troublesome to support the pretence of a good quality, as to. have it ; and if a maa...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...pretends to ? for to counterfeit and dissemble is to put on the appearance of some real excellency. Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome...
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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J ..., Volumes 27-34

British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...pretends to ? for to counterfeit and dissemble is to put on the appearance of some real excellency. Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing, is really to be what he would seem to be, Besides, that it is many times as troublesome...
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The Christian Disciple and Theological Review, Volume 1

Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1819 - 504 pages
...of some real excellency. Now the best way in the world to seem to be any thing, is really to be whaf he would seem to be. Besides that it is many times as troublesome io make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it ; and if a man have it not, it is ten to...
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