| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 600 pages
...ingenuity * has any lasting good effect, even upon a man's fortune and interest. ' Truth and reality have all the advantages of appearance, and many more. If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is * Ingenuity seems to be here used for ingenuousness.... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...have been the author of them. ' If the shew of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better: for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to ? For... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pages
...have been the author of them. ' If the shew of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better: for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to ? For... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...whom we converse , and to him whom we were made to please. SPECTATOU. CHAP. III. On Sincerity. JL RUTH and Sincerity have all the advantages of appearance , and many more. If the shew of any thing be good for any thing , I am sure the reality is better; for why does any man dissemble... | |
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...have ail the advantages of appearance and many more. If the shew of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure the reality is better ; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have the qualities he pretends to? For to counterfeit... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...ingenuity* has feny lasting good effect, even uppn a man's fortune and interest. ' Truth and reality have all the advantages of appearance, and many more. If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better ; for why does any man dissemble, or... | |
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...ingenuity has any lasting good effect, even upon a man's fortune and interest. ' Truth and reality have all the advantages of appearance, and many more. If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I ara sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...would not be much profited by his instructions. Dean Boltun. ON TRUTH AND SINCERITY. TRUTH and reality have all the advantages of appearance, and many more. If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better : for why does any man dissemble, or... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...SECTION I. ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT. I,— On Truth and Jra/e^r^z/,— TILLOTSON. TRUTH and integrity hare all the advantages of appearance, and many more. If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure the reality is better ; for why does any man dissemble,... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...advantages of appearance, and many more. If the shew of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better ; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to ? for... | |
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