 Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.  Select British Classics - Page 1291803Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 410 pages
...to buy or sell, whether his wares be material or intellectual ; whether he makes clothes, or teaches the mathematics; whether 'he be a tutor that wants...promise, is the soul of an advertisement. I remember a ixash-ball that had a quality truly wonderful — it gave an exquisite edge to the razor. And there,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...tutor that wants a pupil, or a pupil that wants a tutor. Whatever is common is despised. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently...promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. I remember a wash-ball that had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...tutor that wants a pupil, or a pupil that wants a tutor. Whatever is common is despised. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently...promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. I remember a wash-ball that had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...tutor that wants a pupil, or a pupil that wants a tutor. Whatever is common is despised. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently...promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. I remember a wash-ball that had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...tutor that wants a pupil* or a pupil that wants a tutor. Whatever is common is despised. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently...perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain atttention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...tutor that wants a pupil, or a pupil that wants a tutor. Whatever is common is despised. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently...promises, and by eloquence Sometimes sublime and sometimes pathctick. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. I remember a wash-ball that had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...tutor that wants a pupil, or a pupil that wants a tutor. Whatever is common is despised. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently...promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. I remember a wash-ball that had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 pages
...tutor that wants a pupil, or a pupil that wants a tutor. Whatever is common is despised. Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently...promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. I remember a "wash-ball that had... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 378 pages
...that wants a pupil, or a pupil that wants a tutor. Whatever is common is despised. Advertisements , are now so numerous that they are very negligently...and by eloquence, sometimes sublime and sometimes paI.hetie. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. I remember a toashball that had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 594 pages
...attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. I remember a wash-ball that had a quality truly wonderful—It gave an exquisite edge to the razor. And there are now to be sold for ready money on/;/,... | |
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