Thiers, who governs the masses, flattersthem by promises of war and conquest.
She blissfully accepts his subtle suggestion that she is the one woman in the world for him--so she is while they are together--and flatters herself that though he may have flirted with others he is really in love with her.
She welcomes him with a dash of maternal tenderness in her manner, she takes an interest in his doings and subtly flatters his vanity, while her own heart is glad that she still has the power to please.
A third Cause, which results from the same Principle is, that we give ourselves up the most readily to his Conduct, whose Method seems the least disagreeable, and flatters our Inclinations the most.
My aunt flatters herself I shall soon forget him - perhaps she thinks I have forgotten him already, for I never mention his name; and she may continue to think so, till we meet again - if ever that should be.
It is when he lowers himself to the level of the public meeting, or of the fashionable drawing-room, that he is changed into a flatterer, and he who flatters always despises the object of his flattery.
You must pass from the public meeting into the office or study, to learn how the man who flatters woman most may despise her in his heart.
Ample arrangements have been made and he flatters himself that superior cooking and good attendance will secure the patronage of a liberal public.
She confessed her love, and flatters herself that she will be able to subdue it--a foolish hope, which could only exist in a mind under the dominion of prejudice.
He flatters himself that on his informing me of his prosperous condition, I can tell you that he is a likely man to make his wife happy.
He flatters himself that he can, thro' the medium of some apparatus, remain on the water without sinking.
If he flatters us, posterity will know it; if he laugh at us, it will know it also.
Tis not her glass, but you, that flatters her; And out of you she sees herself more proper Than any of her lineaments can show her.
We thank you both; yet one but flatters us, As well appeareth by the cause you come; Namely, to appeal each other of high treason.
Lepidus flatters both, Of both is flatter'd; but he neither loves, Nor either cares for him.
Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
When he whom every body else flatters, flatters me, I then am truly happy.
Such attention to such trifles flatters self-love much more than greater things, as it makes people think themselves almost the only objects of your thoughts and care.
Such a conquest flatters their vanity, and vanity is their universal, if not their strongest passion.
He flatters by application, by inference, by comparison, by hint, and seldom directly.
It flatters and comforts age for not being able to take a part in the joy and titter of youth.
Application to business, attended with approbation and success, flatters and animates the mind: which, in idleness and inaction, stagnates and putrefies.
I repeat it again, they are only to be taken by 'agremens', and by what flatters their senses and their hearts.
It is extremely engaging to people of every nation, to meet with a foreigner who hath taken pains enough to speak their language correctly; it flatters that local and national pride and prejudice of which everybody hath some share.
He who flatters them most, pleases them best; and they are the most in love with him, who they think is the most in love with them.
Nothing flatters people more, nor makes strangers so welcome, as such an occasional conformity.
Defn: That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech.
To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him.
Legacy hunter, one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy.
It needed, in order to inflame this heart, a more active spark than foppish gallantry; the latter flatters the vanity without reaching the heart.
That always flatters them, and I am sure it will please this little field-flower.
Every Italian oracle is apt to flatter," said Henry; "but he whoflatters lies.
Well, is it this honor done to the house of France which flatters you?
Son-inlaw Hamilton, because he flatters best, sits highest in the Washington esteem.
The one difference between Jefferson and myself is this: I appeal to men's reason, he flatters their vanity.
Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, Save he who courts the flattery.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my best friend.
If favourable, it gives me pleasure, because it flatters my amour propre, and I am even not quite sure that it does not afford a stimulating encouragement; but if unfavourable, I own it gives me considerable annoyance.
Your memory flatters me, Monsieur," I replied with a laugh.
Genevieve heard one of the two emissaries of the Pharisees say to his companion, 'The Nazarene pretty well flatters the bad passions of these vagabonds.
He counts for something with them; they are what a philosopher would call, bespattered with the title, and that flatters them.
Credulity on one part is a strong temptation to deceit on the other, especially to deceit of which no personal injury is the consequence, and which flatters the author with his own ingenuity.
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth: he will always love it better than inquiry; and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Aye, many a life's happiness is tossed away and many a sin committed, because the favor of women is a grace that does honor to every man, and that flatters him even when it is bestowed by the unloved and unworthy.
It flatters the uneducated to feel themselves akin to their spiritual dictators, and it gives them a spurious refinement.
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