To Miss Burney Johnson once said:'Sir Joshua Reynolds possesses the largest share of inoffensiveness of any man that I know.'

weapons in their hands, some bright, some rusty, equally venerable for their antiquity and inoffensiveness!

He was not in the least an intrusive person,on the contrary, there was a sort of mute appeal to our humanity in the very extent of his quiet inoffensiveness; but his whole atmosphere was utterly uninteresting.

The chief respects in which they might be likened, without much stress, to the harmless creatures we have mentioned, were their love for each other, together with their total inoffensiveness as regarded the outside world; and we are delighted to say this, for we see so many of the multitudinous sides of human nature dark and depraved, that we are apt to think there is no bright side at all.

The busily trampling cohorts in sack-coats and derby hats were, from here, subdued by distance to an aesthetic inoffensiveness of mere ant-like comings and goings.

The Swabian and Franconian is lively, loquacious, genial; and the Rheinlander is so in a still higher degree; but among the former I think there will be found more true-heartedness, inoffensiveness, and simplicity of manners, especially with the female sex, where it borders on naïveté.

Yet still she lingered on, endeavouring by the inoffensiveness of her deportment to disarm the animosity of the people, and enduring not only menaces but even insult; being ignorant in what direction to turn her steps, lest she should throw herself into the power of her arch-enemy.

323, n. 1; Omai, iii. 8, n. 1; Pantheon and Ranelagh, ii. 169, n. i; Paoli's account of Boswell, i. 6, n. 2; Queen Charlotte's opinion of Boswell, i. 5, n. 1; regale, use of the word, iii. 308, n. 2; Reynolds's inoffensiveness, v. 102, n. 3; matrimonial wishes about, iv.

The Baron d'Holbach has offered any security for the inoffensiveness of my behaviour in France'tis more, you rogue!