 | 1875 - 574 pagina’s
...is the following :— " I think, with some show of reason, that he who best knows how to conceal hie necessity and desires is the most likely person to...so much to express our wants as to conceal them." WILLIAM YOUNG. " As SOUND AS A ROACH " (5 th S. ii. 274, 314, 458, 525 ; iii. 37.)—Considering that... | |
 | 1883 - 750 pagina’s
...puts in a claim for Goldsmith on the strength of Jack Spindle's remark, in the 'Citizen of the WoYld,' that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. He also claims for Goldsmith a well-known joke, attributed to Sheridan on his son's remarking that... | |
 | 1931 - 790 pagina’s
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... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. 
