 ... without accommodating them to the approbation of popular prejudice, or hold his reputation, after he has once procured it, on any safer tenure than the uncertain voice of the multitude.  The World, by Adam Fitz-Adam - Sida 1781776Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1753 - 646 sidor
...himfelf a candidate for fame in matters of tafte an'd'fkftrion, can facceed in his pretenfiohs at firft, without accommodating them to the approbation of popular...precarious dependence, and that the chief fecurity of it's fupport, confifted only in the accidental concurrence of numbers in an unaccountable and trifling... | |
 | Edward Moore - 1772 - 344 sidor
...himfelf a candidate for fame in matters o£ taite and fafhion, can fucceed in his pretenfions at firft, without accommodating them to the approbation of popular...perhaps many have been as much deceived in this point as my felt) that the vegetable virtuofo'scredit was more particularly fubject to this precarious dependence,... | |
 | 1786 - 636 sidor
...himfclf a candidate for fame in matters of tafte and fafhion, can fucceed in his pretenfions at fiift, without accommodating them to the approbation of popular...multitude. Now, I muft own, I imagined (and perhaps many bave been as pnuch deceived in this point as rr.yfelf) that the veg?;able virtuofo's credit was more... | |
 | 1753 - 640 sidor
...himielf a candidate for fame in matters of tafte and fafhion, canfucceedin his pretenfions ajt firft, without accommodating them to the approbation of popular...vegetable virtuofo's credit was more particularly fubjeft to this precarious dependence* and that the chief fecurity of it's fupport, confifled only... | |
 | 1803 - 318 sidor
...himself a candidate for fame in matters of taste and fashion, can succeed in his pretensions at first, without accommodating them to the approbation of popular...reputation, after he has once procured it, on any safer tenure than the uncertain voice of the multitude. Now I must own, I imagined (and perhaps many... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 306 sidor
...he has once procured it, on any safer tenure than the uncertain voice of the multitude. Now I must own, I imagined (and perhaps many have been as much deceived in this point as myself) that the vegetable virtuoso's credit was more particularly subject to this precarious dependence,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 310 sidor
...once procured it, on any safer tenure than the uncertain voice of the multitude. Now I must own, 1 imagined (and perhaps many have been as much deceived in this point as myself) that the vegetable virtuoso's credit was more particularly subject to this precarious dependence,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 418 sidor
...himself a candidate for fame in matters of taste and fashion can succeed in his pretensions at first, without accommodating them to the approbation of popular...reputation, after he has once procured it, on any safer tenure than the uncertain voice of the multitude. Now, I must own, I imagined (and perhaps many... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 866 sidor
...himself a candidate for fame in matters of taste and fashion, can succeed in his pretensions at first, without accommodating them to the approbation of popular...reputation, after he has once procured it, on any safer tenure than the uncertain voice of the multitude. Now I must own, I imagined, and perhaps many... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 620 sidor
...himself a candidate for fame in matters of taste and fashion, can succeed in his pretensions at first, without accommodating them to the approbation of popular...reputation, after he has once procured it, on any safer tenure than the uncertain voice of the multitude. Now, I must own, I imagined (and perhaps many... | |
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