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" Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none : if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. "
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin - Seite 323
von Jonathan Swift - 1801
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...

Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 438 Seiten
...most troublesome in company to others and themselves. . Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please...the rest. Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showiug our esteem. Where the company meets, I am confident the few reasonable persons are every minute...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Band 14

Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 386 Seiten
...in company to others and themselves. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flat. tery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you aflVout the rest. Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. Where the company meets,...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

1840 - 614 Seiten
...improved proportionally with his age. Swift sets down flattery as an instance of ill manners ; because, if you flatter all the company, you please none; if...you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. The flattery with which Mrs. Smylar had •won the affections of Colonel Bruff, was not obnoxious to...
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The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts ..., Band 9

Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 518 Seiten
...most troublesome in company to others and themselves. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none : if you natter only one or two, you affront the rest. Flattery is the worst and falsest way of shewing our...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Band 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 Seiten
...half a library to make one book. — Johnson. MDxxxvm. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please...you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. — Swifi. MDXXXIX. The same God, to whom we are but tenants-at-will for the whole, requires but the...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Band 1

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...half a library to make one book. — Johnson. MDXXXVIn. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none ; if you natter only one or two, you afl'ront the rest. — Swift. MDXXXIX. The same God, to whom we are but...
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The golden rules of life; or, Every body's friend

Golden rules - 1835 - 44 Seiten
...are the charms that render wives amiable, and give them the best title to our respect. Flattery. — Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as...you flatter only one or two you affront the rest. — -Swift. Intemperance. — Food improperly taken, not only produces original diseases, but afford...
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Fathers and Sons: A Novel, Band 1

Theodore Edward Hook - 1842 - 1020 Seiten
...improved proportionably with his age. Swift sets down flattery as an instance of ill manners; because, if you flatter all the company, you please none; if...you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.. The flattery with which Mrs. Smylar had won the affections of Colonel Bruff, was not obnoxious to these...
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The Penny satirist and London pioneer [afterw.] The London pioneer ..., Band 3

564 Seiten
...to play for ninch and ¡take little. — Johnton. Nothing is ко great an Instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the Company you please...you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. — Swift. Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity. In gluttony...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable ..., Band 2

Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 Seiten
...most troublesome in company to others and themselves. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none : if you flatter only one or two, you all'ront the rest. Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. Where the company meets,...
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