 | Anita Taylor - 1983 - 424 pagina’s
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 | 1985 - 392 pagina’s
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 | Peter Gay - 1988 - 260 pagina’s
...use of speech," wrote Oliver Goldsmith, Gibbon's acquaintance and himself something of a historian, "is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them,"* a truth, almost a truism, about the human animal which, as Tacitus had said, finds it natural to hate... | |
 | John Bryant - 1993 - 331 pagina’s
...gives the lie to this putative guilelessness is Goldsmith's own remark in The Bee that "the true end of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them" (OG, 230). Irving quotes the aphorism, even notes that it has been falsely attributed to Talleyrand,... | |
 | Ted Goodman - 1997 - 1008 pagina’s
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 | 1997 - 342 pagina’s
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 | Peter Kemp - 1997 - 512 pagina’s
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... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. 
