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" They would not have it run without rubs, as if that style were more strong and manly that struck the ear with a kind of unevenness. These men err not by chance, but knowingly and willingly; they are like men that affect a fashion by themselves; have some... "
The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a ... - Page 175
by Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...like men that affect a fashion by themselves, have some singularity in a ruff, cloak, or bat-band ; 'or their beards specially cut to provoke beholders,...them to be imitated ; so that oft-times the faults that he fell into, the others seek .for: this is the danger, when vice becomes a pr* ; cedent. Others...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...like men that affect a fashion by themselves, have some singularity in a ruff, cloak, or hat-band; or their beards specially cut to provoke beholders,...them to be imitated ; so that oft-times the faults that he fell into, the others seek for: this is the danger, when vice becomes a pr«; cedent. Others...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...like men that affect a fashion by themselves, have some singularity in a ruff, cloak, or hat-band ; or their beards specially cut to provoke beholders,...them to be imitated ; so that oft-times the faults that he fell into, the others seek for: this is the danger, when vice becomes a pr«; tedent. Others...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 524 pages
...like men that affect a fashion by themselves, have some singularity in a ruff, cloak, or hat-band ; or their beards specially cut to provoke beholders,...is authority with the rest loving, delivers over to iLem to be imitated ; so that oft-times the faults that he fell into, the others seek for: this is...
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Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, Volume 1

Lucy Aikin - 1833 - 574 pages
...are like men that affect a fashion by themselves, have some singularity in a ruff, cloke, or hatband; or their beards specially cut to provoke beholders and set a mark upon themselves. Others there are that have no composition at all; but a kind of tuning and riming fall in what they...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 254

1907 - 848 pages
...are like men that affect a fashion by themselves; have some singularity in a ruff cloak or hatband; or their beards specially cut to provoke beholders and set a mark upon themselves." Surely nothing could belong more intimately to his century than this comparison. Yet it also may be...
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Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen, Volume 2

Louisa Stuart Costello - 1844 - 436 pages
...are like men that affect a fashion by themselves, have some singularity in a ruff, cloak, or hatband; or their beards specially cut, to provoke beholders and set a mark upon themselves. Others there are that have no composition at all ; but a kind of tuning and rhyming fall in what they...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...like men that affect a fashion by themselves, have some singularity in a ruff, cloak, or hat-band ; or their beards specially cut to provoke beholders,...into, the others seek for: this is the danger, when one becomes a precedent. Not. 5. — Others there are that have no composition at all ; but a kind...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...like men that affect a fashion by themsclvert, have some singularity in a ruff, cloak, or hat-baud ; or their beards specially cut to provoke beholders, and set a mark upon themselves. They would bo reprehended, while they are looked on. And this vice, one that is authority with the rest, loving,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 69

1861 - 850 pages
...like men that after! :i f.ishion by themselves, have some singularity in a ruff, cloak, or hat-band ; or their beards specially cut to provoke beholders, and set a mark npon tlicmselvcs. They would be reprehended, while they ore looked on. And this vice, one that in authority...
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