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" The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. "
Sir Roger de Coverley, Essays from the Spectator - Page xxx
by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1899 - 166 pages
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The British Essayists: The Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 496 pages
...the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. No man has a better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit for the contempt of all...
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The Tatler, Volume 1

1803 - 410 pages
...the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. No man hath a better judgment for the discovery, or a nobler spirit for the contempt of...
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A biographical history of England, from the Revolution to the end ..., Volume 2

Mark Noble - 1806 - 454 pages
...name of Isaac Bickerstaff, it was " to " expose all false arts of life; to pull oft'the dis" guises of cunning, vanity, and affectation; and '' to recommend...simplicity in our '• dress, our discourse, and our behaviour:" and adds, with a truth not common to dedications, that '•' no man has a better judgment...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pages
...to be foumd in all the work.. The general purpose of the " Tatler" was, (as the author observes) « to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the..." simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." Nothing more was aimed at while Dr. Swift was concerned in it ; nor did the papers rise...
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The Port Folio, Volumes 5-6

1808 - 844 pages
...speaking of the design of the work, under the assumed name of Isaac Bickerstaff, it was " to expose all false arts of life; to pull off the disguises of cunning,...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour:" and adds, with a truth not common to dedications, that " no man has a better judgment for...
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The British Essayists, Volume 1

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 406 pages
...The genera.! purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull- off the di;:gi;iies of cunning, vanity, and affectation, and to recommend...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour. No man has a better judgment for tlw discovery, or a nobler spirit for the Contempt of all...
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The Spectator; in Miniature: Being a Collection of the Principal ..., Volume 1

1808 - 306 pages
...of this periodical paper, whose gay essays are very pleasant, and its serious very instructive, was, to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and ostentation ; and to recommend simplicity in dress, discourse, and hehaviour. STEELE himself produced...
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The school of action; a comedy

Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 410 pages
...the sudden acceptance which my labours met with in the world. The general purpose of this Paper is, to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and aftectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour....
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Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 pages
...ill-adapted to the general purpose of the paper, as originally laid down by Stcele, which was merely to expose the false arts of life ; to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour.* But as this intention was soon broken in upon, and subjects of a more weighty and serious...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 5

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...are to be found throughout the work. The general purpose of the Tatler was (as the author observes) " to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and aifectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour."...
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