...dissimulation. " Men of the world." says he in one of the papers of the Bee, "maintain that the true end of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." How often is this quoted as nnc of the subtle remarks of the fine witted Talleyrand ! " The Good-natured...

...very contrary maxims : they hold, and I think with some show of reason, that he who best knows hew to conceal his necessity and desires, is the most...person to find redress ; and that the true use of spcech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them. When we refleet on the manner in which...

...better than silence; silence is better than speech. i. EMEKSON — Essay on Nominalist and Realist. er j. GOLDSMITH— The Бее. No. 3. The flowering moments of the mind Drop half their petals in our...

...dissimulation. " Men of the world." says he in one of the papers of the Bee, •' maintain that the true end of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." How often is this quoted as one of the subtle remarks of the fine witted Talleyrand ! " The Good-natured...

...another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index. The Bee. A'oi, Oct. G, 1759. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.5 No. iii., Oct. 20, 1759. is ascribed to Menander. See Fraymtnti (appended to Aristophanes in...

...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.2 When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, there appears...

...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.2 When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, there appears...

...dissimulation. "Men of the world," says he, in one of his papers of the Bee, '' maintain that the true end of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." How often is this quoted as one of the subtle remarks of the flne-witted Talleyrand I The Good-Natured...

...has been traced. 'The true use of speech,' says Jack Spindle in Goldsmith's ' Citizen of the World,' 'is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.' But Young before him had written : — And, before Young, South had preached, in one of his wittiest...

...been traced. " The true use of speech," says Jack Spindle in Goldsmith's " Citizen of the World," " is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." But Young before him had written : — Where Nature's end of language is declined, And men talk only...