 | I. M. Schlesinger, Tamar Keren-Portnoy, Tamar Parush - 2001 - 290 pagina’s
..."The true use of speech is not so much to express our thoughts as to conceal them". My neighbor says that the true use of speech is not so much to express our thoughts as to conceal them. Oliver Goldsmith is credited with writing certain words; my neighbor is... | |
 | C. C. Bombaugh - 2003 - 556 pagina’s
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 | Cam Johnson - 2003 - 349 pagina’s
...something much more serious than kissing, and you're likely to be open to the idea. e Cede Crocking "The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. " — Oliver Goldsmith he happiest, most romantic couples I know all have their J own code languages... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2004 - 276 pagina’s
...British poet Oliver Goldsmith (1728— 1774). who in The Bee (1759) expressed the same general idea: "The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." Letter Seven 1. The phrase Native Americans used to express their idea of God. In his extremely wide... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 pagina’s
...more ironic and paradoxical than Johnson. In number3, for example, he propounds the cynical position that the 'true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them'.48 In Bee 4 Goldsmith treats the pains of authorship: he begins straightforwardly enough, 'Were... | |
 | Robert Megarry - 2005 - 495 pagina’s
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 | Tryon Edwards - 2007 - 724 pagina’s
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 | 1875 - 600 pagina’s
...Moslem. OUTIS. Risely, Beds. In Goldsmith's work, The Bee, No. 3, Oct. 20, 1759, is the following : — " I think, with some show of reason, that he who best...so much to express our wants as to conceal them." WILLIAM YOUNG. "As SOUND AS A ROACH" (5th S,. ii. 274, 314, 458, 525 ; iii. 37.)— Considering that... | |
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... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. 
