 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pagina’s
...hest knows how to 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 oar wants, as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pagina’s
...they hold, and I think with some show of reason, that he who best knows how to conceal his necessities and desires, is the most likely person to find redress,...not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. — Goldsmith. MCXL. A diamond, Though set in horn, is still a diamond, And sparkles as in purest gold.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pagina’s
...they hold, and I think with some show of reason, that he who best knows how to conceal his necessities and desires, is the most likely person to find redress,...is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.—Goldsmith. MCXL. A diamond, Though set in horn, is still a diamond, And sparkles as in purest... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pagina’s
...who best knows how to 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. DCCCLXI. When upon a trial a man calls witnesses to Iiis character, and those witnesses... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pagina’s
...best knows how to keep llis 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. DCCCLXL When upon a trial a man calls witnesses to his character, and those witnesses... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 608 pagina’s
...they hold, and I think with some shew of reason, that he who best knows how to conceal his necessities and desires, is the most likely person to find redress,...not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. (1) [This was related of Mr. Thomas Sheridan, son of the friend of Swift, and fattier of Hichard Brinsley... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 pagina’s
...they hold, and I think with some shew of reason, that he who best knows how to conceal his necessities and desires, is the most likely person to find redress,...not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. (1) [This was related of Mr. Thomas Sheridan, son of the friend of Swift, and father of Richard Brinsley... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pagina’s
...that he who best knows how to keep his necessities private, is the most likely to have them redressed; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.—Goldsmith. 1067. Ovid finely compares a man of broken fortune to a falling column; the lower... | |
 | John Timbs - 1839 - 446 pagina’s
...thought so, and said so; but so had Goldsmith long before him, who tells us, in his fifth essay, " that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." Lady Hobart was probably Dorothy, wife of Chief Justice Sir Henry Hobart, daughter of Sir Robert Bell,... | |
 | 1839 - 204 pagina’s
...thought so, and said so ; but so had Goldsmith long before him, who tells us in his fifth essay, " that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." Lady Hobart was probably Dorothy, wife of Chief Justice Sir Henry Hobart, daughter of Sir Robert Bell,... | |
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... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. 
