 | Stephen Simpson - 1823 - 268 pages
...the legacy of a Sergeant. The professed object of this author, is to promote the cause of virtue, and expose " some of the most glaring evils, as well public as private," that afflict, ed his country at the period he wrote. In the uo complishment of the first object he... | |
 | Henry Fielding - England - 1832 - 338 pages
...4. Amelia's unexpected visit 169 TO RALPH ALLEN, ESQ. SIR, THE following book is sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some...one person throughout the whole. The best man is the properest patron of such an attempt ; this, I believe, will be readily granted : nor will the public... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 838 pages
...received pecuniary assistance and valuable counsel. The novel, he observed, was " sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some...most glaring evils, as well public as private, which then infested; the country." .... " The best man," he continues, " is the properest patron of such... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 514 pages
...L •-'-;... 0 LORD 1942 .'1 TO RALPH ALLEN, ESQ. SIR, — The following book is sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some...one person throughout the whole. The best man is the properest patron of such an attempt. This, I believe, will be readily granted ; nor will the public... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 498 pages
...NASSAU STREET. TO RALPH ALLEN, ESQ. SlR, — The following book is sincerely designed to promote_the^ cause of virtue, and to expose some of the most glaring...one person throughout the whole. The best man is the properest patron of such an attempt. This, I believe, will be readily granted ; nor will the public... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 530 pages
...DEEBY & CO. 1857. RALPHALLEN, ESQ. SIR, The following book is sincerely designed to promote the causa of virtue, and to expose some of the most glaring...one person throughout the whole. The best man is the properest patron of such an attempt ; this, I believe, will be readily granted : nor will the public... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Fiction - 1861 - 506 pages
...»8S. MARY B, RICE MAY 2*, mi ,10 KALPH ALLEN, ESQ. SIR, — The following book is sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some...one person throughout the whole. The best man is the properest patron of such an attempt. This, I believe, will be readily granted ; nor will the public... | |
 | Francis Kilvert - 1866 - 254 pages
...so much pecuniary assistance and valuable counsel. The novel, he observed, was " sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some...most glaring evils, as well public as private, which then infested the country The best man," he continues, " is the properest patron of such an attempt.... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1877 - 566 pages
...bewussten 'gegensatze zu den auswüchsen und den äusserlich glänzenden verirrungen seiner zeit, den »most glaring evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the country« '), aber die wirklich guten und einen reellen fortschritt darstellenden seiten des zeitbewusstseins... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 696 pages
...AND TAYLORBREAD STREET HILL. TO RALPH ALLEN, ESQ. SIR, — The following book is sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some...one person throughout the whole. The best man is the properest patron of such an attempt. This, I believe, will be readily granted ; nor will the public... | |
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The following book is sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some of the most glaring evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the country... 
