 The only way of avoiding such a trifling and frivolous old age, is to lay up in our way to it such stores of knowledge and observation, as may make us useful and agreeable in our declining years. The mind of man in a long life will become a magazine of...  The Tatler - Page 981804Full view - About this book
 | 1711 - 404 pages
...improving. For which* Reafon, as there is nothing more ridiculous than an old tri-. fling Story-Telier, fi> there is nothing more venerable than one who has turned...to the Entertainment and Advantage of Mankind. In fhort, we who are in the laft Stage of Life,, and are apt to indulge our felves in Talk, oughr to confider,... | |
 | Tatler - 1754 - 322 pages
...improving. For which Reafon, .as there is nothing more ridiculous, than an old trifling Story teller, fo there is nothing more venerable, than one who has...to the Entertainment and Advantage of Mankind. IN fhorr, we who are in the la ft Stage of Life, and are apt to indulge ourfelves in Talk, ought to confider,... | |
 | 1785 - 698 pages
...rcalon, as there is nothing more ridiculous than un oM triflirfg ftory-teller, fo there is nothing mere venerable, than one who has turned his experience to the entertainment and -advantage of mankind. In (hört) we, who are in the !aft ftage of life, and are apt to indulge ourfelves in talk, ought to conlider,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 572 pages
...only way of avoiding such a trifling and frivolous old age is, to lay up in our way to it such stories of knowledge and observation, as may make us useful...entertainment and advantage of mankind. In short, we, who are in the last stage of life, and are apt to indulge ourselves in talk, ought to consider, if what... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...trifling and frivolous old age is, to lay up in bur way to it such stores of knowledge and observations as may make us useful and agreeable in our declining...venerable than one who has turned his experience to tbe entertainment and advantage of mankind. *THLt. FRENCH COOKERY. No. 148. I -RE MEMBER I was last... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...venerable. I must own, it makes me very melancholy in company, when I hear a young man begin a story ; and have often observed, that one of a quarter of an hour...entertainment and advantage of mankind. In short, we, who are in the last stage of life, and are apt to indulge ourselves in talk, ought to consider, if what... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 348 pages
...story; and have often observed, that one of a quarter of an hour long in a man of fi ve-and-twenty, gathers circumstances every time he tells it, until...entertainment and advantage of mankind. In short, we, who are in the last stage of life, and are apt to indulge ourselves in talk, 6ught to consider, if what... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 414 pages
...venerable. I must own, it makes me very melancholy in company, when I hear a young man begin a story; and have often observed, that one of a quarter of an hour...entertainment and advantage of mankind. In short, we, who are in the last stage of life, and are apt to indulge ourselves in talk, ought to consider, if what... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 442 pages
...quarter of an hour long in a man of five-and-twenty, gathers circumstances every time he tells it, till it grows into a long Canterbury tale of two hours...entertainment and advantage of mankind. In short, we, who are in the last stage of life, and are apt to indulge ourselves in talk, ought to consider, if what... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 862 pages
...quarter of an hour long in a man of five-and-twenty, gathers circumstances every time he tells it, till it grows into a long Canterbury tale of two hours...entertainment and advantage of mankind. In short, we, who are in the last stage of life, and are apt to indulge ourselves in talk, ought to consider, if what... | |
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