 | Laurence Sterne - 1857 - 532 pages
...was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together ; but lie was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly : and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 818 pages
...as such, — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave and serious of mortal men lor days and weeks together ; but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance or tor folly : and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - France - 1864 - 440 pages
...for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and week* together; but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly : and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Laurence Sterne, David Herbert - Authors, English - 1872 - 512 pages
...-not to gravity as such ; — for, where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; but he...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance or for folly : and then, whenever it fell in his... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1873 - 516 pages
...not a gravity as such •, — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; — but...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly : and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...gravity;— not to gravity a* such — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave and serious t because we have ears as well as tongues, and that the lightest reasons that may be, wi nnd declared open war against it, only as it appeared n oloke for ignorance, or for folly ; and then,... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 404 pages
...— not to gravity as such: — for, where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; — but...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it only as it appeared a cloak I for ignorance or for folly : and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1882 - 500 pages
...— not to gravity as such ; — for, where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; but he...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance or for folly: and then, whenever it fell in his... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...— not to gravity u such — for where gravity was wanted, he would be tbe mo-t grave and serious of mortal men for days and weeks together; but he...enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloke ior ignorance, or for folly ; and then, whenever it fell in... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - England - 1883 - 450 pages
...; — for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days or weeks together ; — but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly : and then, whenever it fell in... | |
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Yorick had an invincible dislike and opposition in his nature to gravity;— not to gravity as such;— for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together;— but he was an enemy to the affectation... 
