10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RESPECTABLENESS»
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respectableness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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A dictionary of English synonymes and synonymous or parallel ...
3. Relation, reference, regard. Respectability, n. Estimableness, rep- utableness,
respectableness. Respectablenese, n. Respectability. Respectful, a. Deferential,
courteous, dutiful, obedient, ceremonious, civil, decorous, polite. Respects, n. pi.
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The Yale Literary Magazine
dershirts on, and the whole hall in a wild state of excitement and disorder. I was
surprised to notice, for the first time, that there appeared to be an air of
respectableness about some of the faces in the room. In time the tumult
somewhat subsided ...
It was a street of quite extraordinarily sinister respectableness. It brooded with a
mediocre prosperity, very wide and very gray and very silent. The columns of the
porticoes were checked off by the window of the cab with dull regularity, and the ...
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The British Essayists: Knox's essays
... amidst such storms as would have dashed it in pieces, if those patriots, who
increased the tempest that they might make themselves necessary in the distress,
had been employed as pilots. NUMBER X. The Respectableness of the Clergy.
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Men of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Touching ...
and provide a remedy for that feverish kind of consumption, under which your
Respectableness apparently laboured during our late confabulation” (1: xxi).
Through his knowledge of history he recalls that “informer ages,agreat number ...
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Virtue, Fortune, And Faith: A Geneaology Of Finance
Significantly, one way in which this respectableness was asserted was by
pointing out that exchanges charged a considerable sum for membership, which
in the late-nineteenth-century CBoT, for instance, was around US$25,000. The
moral ...
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Compton Mackenzie Complete Novels-Sinister Street, Complete ...
Itwas a street ofquite extraordinarily sinister respectableness. It brooded with
amediocre prosperity, verywide and very grayand very silent. Thecolumns
oftheporticoes were checked off by the window ofthe cab withdull regularity, and
the noise ...
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The Fool of Quality; Or, the History of Henry Earl of ...
By Mr Brooke ... ... Henry Brooke. a few simple articles, fuck as moderation,
content, self-denial, and so forth, I made no doubt of your embracing the terms
with joy. On paying my first visit, your Respectableness was j ust come from- a ...
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The British Essayists: To which are Prefixed Prefaces, ...
X. The Respectableness of the Clergy. It seems probable at first sight, tha.t an
order of men who devote themselves entirely to the instruction of their fellow-
creatures, would be exempted from envy and from hatred. As their studies are all
T 3 Nc ...
James Ferguson (advocate.),
1819
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The British Essayists: Essays moral and literary
... in pieces, if those patriots, who increased the tempest that they might make
themselves necessary in the distress, had been employed as pilots. No.X. The
Respectableness of the Clergy. It seems probable, at F2 9. KNOX's ESSAYS. 53.
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