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" Thus while the crafty and designing part of mankind, consulting only their own separate advantage, endeavour to maintain one constant imposition on others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear disguised under false... "
Amelia (cont.) Essay on conversation. Essay on the knowledge of the ... - Page 403
by Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806
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The works of Henry Fielding, ed. with a biogr. essay by L. Stephen, Volume 6

Henry Fielding - 1882 - 518 pages
...separate advantage, endeavour to maintain one constant imposition on others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear...disguised under false vizors and habits ; a very few only showing their own faces, who become, by so doing, the astonishment and ridicule of all the rest. But...
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The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Essays and legal cases

Henry Fielding - 1882 - 462 pages
...separate advantage, endeavour to maintain one constant imposition on others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear...disguised under false vizors and habits ; a very few only showing their own faces, who become, by so doing, the astonishment and ridicule of all the rest. But...
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The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Miscellaneous writings

Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - 1903 - 356 pages
...separate advantage, endeavour to maintain one constant imposition on others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear...disguised under false vizors and habits ; a very few only showing their own faces, who become, by so doing, the astonishment and ridicule of all the rest. But...
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The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 9

Henry Fielding - 1903 - 454 pages
...separate advantage, endeavour to maintain one constant imposition on others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear...disguised under false vizors and habits ; a very few only showing their own faces, who become, by so doing, the astonishment and ridicule of all the rest. But...
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The Figure of Theater: Shaftesbury, Defoe, Adam Smith, and George Eliot

David Marshall - Business & Economics - 1986 - 300 pages
...Knowledge of the Characters of Men," he denounces the imposition by which "the whole World becomes a vast Masquerade, where the greatest Part appear...false Vizors and Habits; a very few only shewing their own.Faces." Describing a world in which the outsides of people bear almost no resemblance to their...
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Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English ...

Terry Castle - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 420 pages
...deceit in "An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men" (1743), Fielding called human society "a vast Masquerade, where the greatest Part appear disguised under false Vizors and Habits."33 In Rambler 75, Samuel Johnson scorned the way "the rich and powerful live in a perpetual...
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The Rhetoric of Empiricism: Language and Perception from Locke to I.A. Richards

Jules David Law - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 282 pages
...maintain one constant Imposition on others, the whole World becomes a vast Masquerade, where the greater Part appear disguised under false Vizors and Habits;...doing, the Astonishment and Ridicule of all the rest" (ibid., 1.155). tion of servant-class strategy as one of "turning qualities inside out" functions as...
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The Female Thermometer : Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the ...

Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 294 pages
...Fielding in 1743 in his "Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men," the world was nothing more than "a vast Masquerade," where "the greatest Part appear disguised under false Vizors and Habits." Owen Sedgewick, in the same decade, entitled a lascivious compendium of modern evils The Universal...
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Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684–1750

William B. Warner - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 346 pages
...separate advantage, endeavor to maintain one constant imposition on the others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear...disguised under false vizors and habits; a very few only showing their own faces, who become, by so doing, the astonishment and ridicule of all the rest" (155)....
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Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution ...

Kevin Sharpe, Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 404 pages
...world becomes a vast masquerade where the greatest part appear disguised ... a very few only showing their own faces, who become by so doing, the astonishment and ridicule of all the rest.75 Like Mandeville, Fielding here deployed one of the most ubiquitous Augustan images of social...
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