...a type representing a whole <a man who is the abstract of all faults that all men follow— Shak.) <a man so various that he seemed to be not one, but all mankind's epitome— Dryden) Brief is usually narrowly applied in legal use to a concise statement of a client's...

...all that David was not an untried man! We have all been enriched by his painful experience. He was "A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." May it not be a blessing to others that we also are tried? If BO, ought we not to be right...

...heads toward Fort Laramie, then about seven hundred miles to the westward. Chapter V. THE 'BIG BLUE.' "A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome, Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was even' thing by starts, and nothing long, But in the space of one...

...whenever he was out of her sight. He, even more than the statesman portrayed in Dryden's poem, was A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Needless to say, a temperament like this is sometimes disconcerting to its possessor. In his...

...Achitophel the notorious description of George Villicrs, Duke of Buckingham (himself a satirist), as Zimri: In the first Rank of these did Zimri stand: A Man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one. but all Mankind's Epitome. StitTin Opinions, always in the Wrong; Was Everything...

...unless the sarcasm is directed towards oneself and turned into a form of victim humor. Satire (language) A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving...

...enforced resentful silence, by painting Buckingham in the immortal character of Zimri : In the f1rst rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that...to be Not one, but all Mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one...

...numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. 1 1 88 Absalom and Achitophel A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one...

...numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. 3026 Absalom and Achitophel ine opinlons, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one...

...Ramble in St. James's Park" or in the Bayes's dance confusion of The Plain Dealer's Whitehall. Zimri, A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. [545-546] is not a "self" but a kaleidoscope of splintered fragments. The portrait sounds...