 | Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 420 pages
...fenfibility of a heart which is tender even to a degree of weaknefs. This delicacy of feeling, or forenefs of the mind, makes him timorous and fearful ; but then he is afraid of nothing fo much as of difhonour ; and although he is exceedingly cautious of giving offence, he will fire at... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1793 - 268 pages
...fenfibility of a hearty which is tender, even to a degree of weaknefs. This delicacy of feeling, or forenefs of the mind, makes him timorous and fearful; but then he is afraid of nothing fo much as of dishonour ; and although he is exceedingly cautious of giving offence, he will fire at... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 560 pages
...fenfibility of a heart which is tender even to a degree of weaknefs. This delicacy of feeling, or forenefs of the mind, makes him timorous and fearful ; but then he is afraid of nothing fo much as of difhonour ; and although he is exceedingly cautious of giving offence, he will fire at... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 280 pages
...is well cultivated ; his observations on life are equally just, pertinent, and uncommon. He affects misanthropy, in order to conceal the sensibility of...although he is exceedingly cautious of giving offence, he'will fire at the least hint of insolence or ill-breeding. Respectable as he is, upon the whole,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 584 pages
...is well cultivated ; his observations on life are equally just, pertinent, and uncommon. He effects misanthropy, in order to conceal the sensibility of...of nothing so much as of dishonour ; and although lie is exceedingly cautious of giving offence, he will fire at the least hint of insolence or ill-breeding... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - Great Britain - 1831 - 472 pages
...is well cultivated ; his observations on life are equally just, pertinent, and uncommon. He affects misanthropy, in order to conceal the sensibility of...fearful ; but then he is afraid of nothing so much as of dishonor ; and although he is exceedingly cautious of giving offence, he will fire at the least hint... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pages
...is well cultivated ; his observations on life are equally just, pertinent, and uncommon. He affects misanthropy, in order to conceal the sensibility of...soreness of the mind, makes him timorous and fearful ; tut then he is afraid of nothing so much as of dishonour ; and although he is exceedingly cautions... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - English fiction - 1836 - 430 pages
...is well cultivated ; his observations on life are equally ju.-t, pertinent, and uncommon. He affects misanthropy, in order to conceal the sensibility of...which is tender even to a degree of weakness. This delic;icy of feeling, or soreness of the mind, makes him timorous and fearful ; but then he is afraid... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English wit and humor - 1885 - 572 pages
...gloomy paroxysms ; and, when the laugh is over, he will curse his own imbecility.' (34): 'He affects misanthropy, in order to conceal the sensibility of...heart, which is tender even to a degree of weakness. Diese Eigenschaft muss vor alien der Charakter haben, welcher auf den Namen eines humoristischen AnRegel,... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1909 - 424 pages
...is well cultivated ; his observations on life are equally just, pertinent, and uncommon. He affects misanthropy in order to conceal the sensibility of...heart which is tender even to a degree of weakness . . . but then he is afraid of nothing so much as of dishonour, and although he is exceedingly cautious... | |
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He affects misanthropy, in order to conceal the sensibility of a heart, which is tender, even to a degree of weakness. 
