 | Dan Miller - 1998 - 368 pagina’s
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 | Delbert D. Thiessen - 170 pagina’s
...which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. SamuelJohnson English writer The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. Oliver Goldsmith English writer Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 pagina’s
...been students, and their greatest study is themselves. GOLDSMITH Oliver 1730-1774 1681 The Bee no. 3 The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. 1682 The Deserted Village The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write and... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagina’s
...Johnson; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it. 4147 The Bee no. 3 fAneurin Sevan) He enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist syst 4148 Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pagina’s
...best knows how to conceal his necessity and desires is the most likely person to find redress, . . . the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them. Oliver Goldsmith, 20 October 1759, 'On the Use of Language', in The Bee, no. 3 2:43 Thoughts, that... | |
 | David Lowenthal - 2000 - 670 pagina’s
...Chapter 14 below. 71. GPM, LEL, 1885 ed., 354-55n, 1861 ed., 35. Marsh here rephrased Oliver Goldsmith's 'The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them" ("On the Use of Language" (1759), in The Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. Arthur Friedman [Oxford:... | |
 | 2001 - 838 pagina’s
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... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. 
