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But thou regardest not these things, but contrariwise; rather than thou wilt be out of the friendship and favour of this world, thou wilt sin against thine own conscience, and get thyself into favour by fawning and flattering of the world. Yea, rather than thou wilt go without it, thou wilt dissemble, lie, backbite thy neighbour, and an hundred other tricks thou wilt have.
They who were most benefited are often the first to most loudly complain and to backbite. Never once in all my observation have I heard a labouring man or woman make a grateful remark; and yet I can confidently say that there is no class of persons in England who receive so many attentions and benefits from their superiors as the agricultural labourers.
Is the foul tongue of Hurry Harry to blast my life?" "Not it, Judith not it. I've told Hurry it wasn't manful to backbite them he couldn't win by fair means; and that even an Indian is always tender, touching a young woman's good name." "If I had a brother, he wouldn't dare to do it!" exclaimed Judith, with eyes flashing fire.
It is but a hearty laugh at our expense, and Mrs. Grundy is content. If you don't want her to pity or backbite, let her laugh. She is a she-Cerberus, she wants to eat you; well stop her mouth with a cake. "Yes," continued this better sort of Aristippus, so wise under all his seeming levities, "the cue thus given, everything favors it.
Roger de Backbite was forced to come in attendance upon the sovereign, but took care to keep in the rear of his august master, and to shelter behind his huge triangular shield as much as possible.
James was indeed not only very ill, but growing slowly worse; for he lay struggling at last in the Backbite of Conscience, who had him in her unrelaxing jaws, and was worrying him well. Whence the holy dog came we know, but how he got a hold of him to begin his saving torment, who shall understand but the maker of men and of their secret, inexorable friend!
'And Bagshot for a butt, said the Duke. 'And Backbite for a buffoon, said Mr. Annesley. 'And for the rest, said the young Duke, 'the rest of the crew, I vote, shall be women. The Dalmaines will just do. 'And the little Trevors, said Lord Darrell. 'And Long Harrington, said Lord Squib. 'She is my beauty. 'And the young Ducie, said Annesley. 'And Mrs. Dallington of course, and Caroline St.
American Hunt, in his suggestive ``Talks about Art, demands that the child shall be encouraged or rather permitted, for the natural child needs little encouragement to draw when- and whereon-soever he can; for, says he, the child's scribbling on the margin of his school-books is really worth more to him than all he gets out of them, and indeed, ``to him the margin is the best part of all books, and he finds in it the soothing influence of a clear sky in a landscape. Doubtless Sir Benjamin Backbite, though his was not an artist soul, had some dim feeling of this mighty truth when he spoke of that new quarto of his, in which ``a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin'': boldly granting the margin to be of superior importance to the print.
There is not a match nor a divorce near St. James's of which he cannot repeat all the whys and wherefores. I call him Sir Benjamin Backbite; and I believe he hates me worse than Asmodeus himself." "Such a man's dislike," rejoined Mary, "is the highest encomium he can bestow. I never yet heard him speak well of any person who did not resemble himself."
No; I'm not censorious, and I wouldn't backbite an angel; but the way in which that young woman walks the sands at all hours there! there! I've done: I can't open my lips about that creature but you always storm. "You know that I always wanted to go to France; and you bring me down here only on purpose that I should see the French cliffs just to tantalise me, and for nothing else.