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" 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 to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it... "
The Spectator - Page 131
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A class-book of elocution

J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...any thing, 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 man have it not, it is most likely he will be discovered to want it, and then all his labour to seem to have it is lost. There...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the ..., Volumes 7-8

Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...any thing, is reallv to be what he would seem to be. 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 • From the sermon of Archbishop Tillotson. it not, it is ten to one but he is discovered to want...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1853 - 456 pages
...to be in reality 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 man have it not, I it is most likely he will be discovered to want it ; \ and, then, all his labour to seem to have...
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The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...seem to be anything, is really to be what he would seem. Besides it is often as troublesome to support the pretence of a good quality, as to have it ; and, if he have it not, it is likely that he will be discovered to want it, and then all his labour is lost....
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Exercises on translation from English into French for the use of students ...

Jules Bué - 1857 - 124 pages
...any thing, 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 man have it not, it is most likely he will be discovered to want it, and then all his labour to seem to have it is lost. There...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others].

Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...any thing, is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome that her notions of government are still the same. This u ; aud if a man have it nol, it is ten to one but he is discovered to want it ; aud then all his pains...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...TILLOfSON. 197 that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to hare 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 are lost. There is something...
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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 man have it not, it is most' likely he will be discovered to want it ; and then all his labour to seem to have it is lost....
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...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 man have it not, it is most likely he will be discovered to want it ; and then all his labour to seem to have it is lost....
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...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 man have it not, it is most likely he will be discovered to want it, and then all his labour to seem to have it is lost. There...
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