 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pàgines
...conceal his necessity and desires, is the most likely person to find redress ; ami that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, we shall find, that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 416 pàgines
...is too often the false, designing man that is guarded in his conduct and never offends proprieties. It is singular, however, that Goldsmith, who thus...could keep nothing to himself, should be the author of * maxim which would inculcate the most thorough dissimulation. '• Men of the world," says he in one... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 602 pàgines
...conceal his necessities and desires, is the most likely person to find redress, and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favors, we shall find that they... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 pàgines
...keep his necessities private, is the most likely person to have them redressed ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, there appears something... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pàgines
...keep his necessities private, is the most likely person to have them redressed ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, there appears something... | |
 | 1853 - 748 pàgines
...paper in The See, produces it in the well-known words : " Men who know the world hold that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them." Then comes Talleyrand, who is reported to have said: " La parole n'a ete donnee a rhomme que pour deouiser... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pàgines
...keep his necessities private, is the most likely person to have them redressed ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them. — Goldsmith. SPELLING. — It is a shame for a man to be so ignorant of this little art (spelling)... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 614 pàgines
...is too often the false, designing man that is guarded in his conduct, and never offends proprieties. It is singular, however, that Goldsmith, who thus...thorough dissimulation. '• Men of the world," says be, in one of the pajiei-s of the " Bee," " maintain that the true end of speech is not so much to... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pàgines
...brutal faces in human features. a I remember in the life of the famous Prince • ' ' The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.' Goldsmith's Bee, No. 3. (Works, vol. ip 51, Putnam's eJ.) The most recent form in which I remember... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 618 pàgines
...kinds of brutal faces in human features. ' I remember in the life of the famous Prince 1 ' The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.' Goldsmith's Bee, No. 3. (Works, vol. ip 51, Putnam's ed. ) The most recent form in which I remember... | |
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... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. 
