. Thackerayana;. nd comeliness of person. To me (who see people every day in the midst of crowds,whomsoever they seem to address, talk only to themselves and ofthemselves) this orator was not so extravagant a man as perhapsanother would have thought him; but I took part in his success,and was very glad to find he had in his favour judgment and costs,without any manner of opposition. No. 204. The Tatler.—July 29, 1710. He with rapture hears A title tingling in his tender ears. Franciss Horace, Sat. V. 32. Were distinctions used ac-cording to the rules of reasonand sense, those additionsto mens
. Thackerayana;. nd comeliness of person. To me (who see people every day in the midst of crowds,whomsoever they seem to address, talk only to themselves and ofthemselves) this orator was not so extravagant a man as perhapsanother would have thought him; but I took part in his success,and was very glad to find he had in his favour judgment and costs,without any manner of opposition. No. 204. The Tatler.—July 29, 1710. He with rapture hears A title tingling in his tender ears. Franciss Horace, Sat. V. 32. Were distinctions used ac-cording to the rules of reasonand sense, those additionsto mens names would be,as they were first intended,significant of their worth, andnot their persons; so thatin some cases it might be proper to say of a deceased am-bassador, The man is dead; but his excellency will never die. Itis, methinks, very unjust to laugh at a Quaker, because he has takenup a- resolution to treat you with a word the most expressive ofcomplaisance that can be thought of, and with an air of good-. THE TATLER. 275 nature and charity calls you Friend. I say, it is very unjust torally him for this term to a stranger, when you yourself, in all yourphrases of distinction, confound phrases of honour into no use at Tom Courtly, who is the pink of courtesy, is an instance ofhow little moment an undistinguishing application of sounds ofhonour are to those who understand themselves. Tom never failsof paying his obeisance to every man he sees who has title oroffice to make him conspicuous; but his deference is wholly givento outward considerations. I, who know him, can tell him withinhalf an acre how much land one man has more than another byToms bow to him. Title is all he knows of honour, and civility,of friendship; for this reason, because he cares for no man living,he is religiously strict in performing, what he calls, his respects toyou. To this end he is very learned in pedigree, and will abatesomething in the ceremony of his approaches to a man, if he is inan
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