Give yourself to be merry, for you degenerate from your Father if you find not yourself most able in wit and body to do any thing when you be most merry: but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to any man, for a wound given... The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 184by John Hawkins - 1787 - 602 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 640 pages
...make you grateful in each company, and otherwife ' loathfome. Give yourfelf to be merry ; for you c degenerate from your father if you find not yourfelf...you rather a hearer and bearer away of other mens' c talk than a beginner or procurer of fpeech, otherwife c you fhall be counted to delight to hear yourfelf... | |
| John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 636 pages
...fcurrility and biting words to any man, for a c wound given by a word is oftentimes harder to be c cured than that which is given with the fword. Be...other mens' ' talk than a beginner or procurer of fpeech, otherwife ' you fhall be counted to delight to hear yourfelf « fpeak. If you hear a wife lenience... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 642 pages
...able in wit and body to do any thing when you c be moft merry : but let your mirth be ever void of 1 all fcurrility and biting words to any man, for a * wound given by a word is oftentimes harder to be f cured than that which is given with the fword. Be * you rather a hearer and bearer away of other... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English letters - 1790 - 912 pages
...your mirth be trer ïtâd of all fcurrility, and biting tonis to any man, for a wound given by a «ord is oftentimes harder to be cured, than that which is given with the fword. Be yoa rather a hearer and bearer away j etaer men's talk, than a beginner or pâturer of fpeech, otherwife... | |
| Columbia County (N.Y.) - 1804 - 450 pages
...and body, it. do any thing when you be moll merry. But let your mirth be ever void of all fcuirility, and biting words to any man. For a wound, given by...oftentimes harder to be cured than that which is given with a fword. Be you rather a hearer and bearer away of other men's talk, than a beginner or procurer of... | |
| Great Britain - 1808 - 588 pages
...and body to do any thing, when you be most merry; but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to any man, for a wound given by a word is harder to be cured than that which is given by a sword. 10. Be you rather a hearer and bearer away... | |
| William Oldys, Thomas Park - Great Britain - 1808 - 586 pages
...and body to do any thing, when you be most merry; but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to any man, for a wound given by a word is harder to be cured than that which is given by a sword. 10. Be you rather a hearer and bearer away... | |
| William Oldys, John Malham - Europe - 1808 - 594 pages
...and body to do any thing, when you be most merry; but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to any man, for a wound given by a word it harder to be cured than that which is given by a sword. 10. Re you rather a hearer and bearer away... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...any thin!;, when you be most merry : but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility, and hiting words to any man, for a wound given by a word is oftentimes...harder to be cured, than that which is given with the sword. Be yon rather a hearer and bearer away of other men's talk, than a beginner or procurer of speech,... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...and body to do any thing, when you be most merry : but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to any man ; for a wound given by a word is oftentimes * < If ever you expect to have a sound body, as well as a sound mind, carefully avoid intemperance... | |
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