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One can guess that a man who wrote in that spirit two centuries before the French Revolution would not be a sycophant in courts, which, perhaps, helps to explain the conspiracy of silence that obscured Radisson's fame.
The struggle was for life and death, on the part equally of Whig and Tory. Marion knew the character of the person, and disdained it. To the surprise of all, who knew how scrupulous of insult he was, how indulgent and forbearing, he turned away from the trimmer and the sycophant without recognition.
Cantemir, a polished, hollow-hearted, selfish sycophant and coward, made more so perhaps by Constance' influence over him, at Katherine's command, as it were, had taken flight.
Darling asserted that for the President to uphold the Saybrook System of Consociated Churches was to set up the standards of men, a thing the forefathers never did; that the picture of the Separatists' "New Scheme," which the President drew, was a scandalous spiritual libel; and then, falling into the personal attacks permitted in those days, Darling adds that President Clap was an overzealous sycophant of the General Assembly, a servant of politics rather than of religion, and that it would be better for him to trust to the real virtues of the Consociated Church to uphold it than to strive for legal props and legislative favors for his "ministry-factory," the college.
Then I grow as savage as a tiger, and I ought not to be so, I ought not. Roland, my foreman, probably likes " "Meister, Meister, your beard is beginning to tremble already!" "What did the Glippers think, when their aristocratic cloaks " "The landlord took yours and mine from the fire entirely on his own responsibility." "I don't care! The crook-legged ape did it to honor the Spanish sycophant.
The employment of a lover is that of a mountebank, of a soldier, of a quack, of a buffoon, of a prince, of a ninny, of a king, of an idler, of a monk, of a dupe, of a blackguard, of a liar, of a braggart, of a sycophant, of a numskull, of a frivolous fool, of a blockhead, of a know-nothing, of a knave.
Night after night, to decades of years, the old lady recounts the little journal of her day to the admiring listeners, whose chorus of approval is performed daily with the same unvarying regularity. The times are changing now; the prince is not so easily amused, and the sycophant has accordingly acquired the art of amusing, but there still survive some wonderful monuments of the old school.
"The justice had been a pettifogger, and was a sycophant to a nobleman in the neighbourhood, who had a post at court. He therefore thought he should oblige his patron, by showing his respect for the military; but treated our knight with the most boorish insolence; and refused to admit him into his house, until he had surrendered all his weapons of offence to the constable.
When I am a Sycophant And a base gleaner from an others favour, As all you are that halt upon his crutches. Shame take that smoothnes and that sleeke subjection!
Florence Devlyn, for instance, was no fit companion for her Florence Devlyn, whom he met at every decent house and had never before disapproved of, except as a bore and a sycophant. Harrowfield House, as every one knows, is one of the finest in London; and with the worst manners, and an inordinate insolence, Lady Harrowfield ruled her section of society with a rod of iron.
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