 | John Forster - 1877 - 468 pagina’s
...the poor : an essay to prove that he who best knew how to conceal his necessities and desires, was the most likely person to find redress, and that the true use ol speech was not to express wants, but conceal them.j- All of us have known the Jack Spindle of this... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 pagina’s
...in a claim for Goldsmith on the strength of Jack Spindle's remark (in the ' Citizen of the World '), 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 saying that he... | |
 | Young men's Catholic assoc - 1878 - 406 pagina’s
...number of the Bee, a weekly pamphlet of whose buzzings we do not know much, says, to the same effect : " The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them." The title of his paper is, " On the use of language." It appears very improbable that Talleyrand should... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 pagina’s
...another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index. The Bet. No. i. Oct. 6, 1759. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.1 Ibid. No. iii. Oct. 20, 1759. ARTHUR MURPHY. 1727-1805. Thus far we run before the wind. The... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - 476 pagina’s
...has.' ' Men of the world,' said Goldsmith 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 finewitted Talleyrand !] The old story... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pagina’s
...who best knows how to keep his necessities private is the most likely person to have them redressed ; ual. SIR R. STEELE. A trne and genuine impudence is ever the effect of ignorance, witho GOLDSMITH : Essays, No. V. The reader must not be surprised to find me once more addressing schoolmasters... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 pagina’s
...promote commerce, and not betray it. — Lloyd's State Worthies (1665^. Ed. Whitworth, Vol. 1. P- 503. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. — Goldsmith, The Bee, Afo. Hi. Oct. 20, 1759. Us n'emploient les paroles que pour de'guiser leurs... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 634 pagina’s
...continuance at college." ' ' To imitate nature was found to be the surest way of imitating antiquity. " " The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them."1 The peculiar artifice of ending off a sentence with an unexpected turn is of the nature of... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 pagina’s
...continuance at college." ' To imitate nature was found to be the surest way of imitating antiquity. " ' The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them."1 The peculiar artifice of ending off a sentence with an unexpected turn is of the nature of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 514 pagina’s
...likely person to have them redressed; and that the true 1 Originally in No. III. of The- Bee. Sec p. 43. use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.1 When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favors, there appears... | |
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... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. 
