"Now this great Ambition, which in other Times or Nations hath wrought such wonderful Effects, is no longer to be found among us. It is the Pride of Equipage, the Pride of Title, the Pride of Fortune, or the Pride of Dress, that have assumed the Empire over our Souls, and levelled Ambition with the Dirt."
An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times
13 entries in ESTC (1757, 1758).<br>
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John Brown of Newcastle, <u>An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times</u>, 2 vols. (London: L. Davis and Reymer, 1757). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB128539899&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=DKoLAAAAIAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;