 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those \vho are in the game. I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact nentrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 394 pages
...oeconomy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standcrs-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who...short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper. I have given the reader just... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 412 pages
...business, and diversion of others, better than those who arc engaged in them ; as stand ers-by diseover blots, which are apt to escape those who are in the...an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, tlnless 1 shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, 1 have acted... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...business and diversion of others, j better than those who are engaged in them ; as stand- 1 ; ers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who-'...short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-ton, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper. I have given the reader just... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots, which are .apt to escape those who are in toe game. I never espoused any party with violence, and...exact neutrality between the whigs and tories, unless 1 shall bt forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I have acted in all... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...economy, "business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standersby discover blots, which are apt to escape those who...violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality * An allusion, no doubt, to Mr. John Greaves, a mathematician and antiquary, who, after visiting Egypt,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...ceconomy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as slanders by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game. 1 never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the... | |
 | G. Hamonière - 1819 - 388 pages
...and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by discover b'ofs, which are apt to escape those who are in the game....between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced fo declare myself by the hostilities of either •ide. In shorf, I have acted in all parts of my life... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who are in the game. I never espoused any part with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the whigs and lories, unless... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...economy, business, and 'diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are...short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper. I have given the reader just... | |
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I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are... 
