| Richard Halkett - 1887 - 588 pagina’s
...Goldsmith's version— to be found in his paper on Language In The Bee, No. iii., October 20, 1759— runs " The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as' to conceal them." Young's version—' Love of Fame," Sat li.. 1. 307,— Is :— "When nature's end of language is declined... | |
| Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 pagina’s
...hill which few may hope to climb ; duty is the path that all may tread. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774) The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. While Selfishness... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pagina’s
...speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. 5193 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. Social Aims. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.' 5194 Goldsmith : The Bee. Oct. 20, 1759. Speech is . . . the art of . . .stifling and suspending thought.... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pagina’s
...speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. 5193 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims. Social Aims. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.1 5194 Goldsmith : The Hee. Oct. 20, 1759. Speech is . . . the art of ... stifling and suspending... | |
| 1891 - 556 pagina’s
...Seneca. THE GIFT OP. All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom. Cato. TRUE USE OP. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. Goldsmith. SPENDTHRIFT. Spendthrift alike of money and of wit, Always at speed and never drawing bit... | |
| Lester Frank Ward - 1892 - 400 pagina’s
...must antedate any utterance of the former. Moreover, In The Bee of Oct. 20, 1759, Goldsmith wrote : " The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them" ; and in one of the sermons of Robert South (1676) occurs the following sentence : " Speech was given... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1893 - 780 pagina’s
...the use of language is generally thus :—" Language has been granted to man, in order to discover liver Goldsmith tnie use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them. When we reflect on the... | |
| James Baldwin - 1893 - 312 pagina’s
...give place to grief? 1. words . . . half conceal the Soul within. See Goldsmith, The Bee, No. iii. : " The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." Talleyrand is credited with the common phrase : " Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts."... | |
| James Baldwin - 1893 - 312 pagina’s
...give place to grief? 1. words . . . half conceal the Soul within. See Goldsmith, The Bee, No. iii. : " The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." Talleyrand is credited with the common phrase : " Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts."... | |
| 1896 - 1224 pagina’s
...better than silence; silence is better than speech. v. EMERSON — Essay on Nominalist and Realist. w. GOLDSMITH — The Bee. No. 3. 574 SPEECH. SPIRITS. Know when to speake; for many times it brings... | |
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