The modern economiser keeps back his opinions, or dissembles the grounds of them, for the sake of leaving his neighbours the more at their ease in the peaceful sloughs of prejudice and superstition and low ideals.
In the one case, the compromiser rejects the highest truth, or dissembles his own acceptance of it.
The child dissembles with his father, the sister with her[141] brother, The maiden with her mistress, and the young man with his lover.
Well said, Dunstan: but what merits he, that dissembles with his sovereign?
Ye can agree with a profane hypocrite—with a profane man, that feigns and dissembles repentance but if once he were so thoroughly changed, as to hate his former way, and forsake it, then your antipathy beginneth.
We can acquire the faculty of imposing silence on our eyes, on our lips, on our brows, and on our forehead; but the hand never dissembles and nothing in our features can be compared to the richness of its expression.
The preceding meditation has proved that we possess in France a floating population of one million women reveling in the privilege of inspiring those passions which a gallant man avows without shame, or dissembles with delight.
This is a good beginning: How naturally the rogue dissembles it!
Not till the very close of all: she dissembles it yet, because my lord, your father, is here, and her other suitor Bold.
Pen, who continues a little ill, or dissembles it, the latter of which I am apt to believe.
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