 | Robert Bailey Thomas - Almanacs, American - 1841 - 522 pages
...word to say, There '» a time in which to say it. SUCCESS IN CONVERSATION. The art of conversation consists of the exercise of two fine qualities. You...possess at the same time the habit of communicating and listening. The union is rare but irresistible. INFLUENCE OF IMAGINATION. Dr. Holland says, " that if... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1844 - 168 pages
...Lady Everingham thoroughly understood the art of conversation, which indeed consists of the «erase of two fine qualities. You must originate, and you...you must possess, at the same .time, the habit of communicating,and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible. Laly Everingham... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 430 pages
...home happy and peaceful. APPENDIX. 25 177 — Conversation. GC— The art of conversation consists in the exercise of two fine qualities. You must originate,...possess at the same time the habit of communicating and listening. The union is rare, but irresistible. 178— Punctuality. J. B-— Make it your own rule... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...hopes above. JAMES GILBOKXK LTOXS. SUCCESS IN CONVERSATION. — The art of conversation consists in the exercise of two fine qualities. You must originate,...possess at the same time the habit of communicating and listening. The union is rare, but irresistible. GOSPEL HARMONY OF THE DENIALS OF ST. PETER. I AM reading... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...SUCCESS IN CONVERSATION. THE art of conversation consists in the exercise of two fine qualities—you must originate and you must sympathize ; you must...possess at the same time the habit of communicating and listening. The union is rare but irresistible. HOME! Home ! where passed my childhood fleety, Mem'ry... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1853 - 402 pages
...conversation consists in the exercise of two fine qualities. You must originate, and you must sympathise ; you must possess at the same time the habit of communicating and listening. The union is rare, but irresistible. \ BY THE SENIOR EDITOR. The winter season, to which... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1866 - 730 pages
...signifying their dissent, moved an adjournment to the ladies. They joined the ladies in the music-room. Coningsby, not experienced in feminine society, and...listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible. I Lady Everingham was not a celebrated beauty, but she was something infinitely more delightful —... | |
 | Florence Hartley - Education - 1872 - 352 pages
...»...,., Ml LADIES' BOOR OF ETIQUETTE, CHAPTER I. CONVERSATION. THE art of conversation consists in the exercise of two fine qualities. You must originate,...possess at the same time the habit of communicating and of listening attentively. The union is rare but irresistible. None but an excessively ill-bred person... | |
 | Baptists - 1875 - 444 pages
...alarms our vanity. Fenelon. The art of conversation consists in the exercise of two fine qualities. Yon must originate, and you must sympathize; you must possess, at the same time, the habits of communicating and listening. The union is rare but irresistible.—Froude. It is only by... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1881 - 590 pages
...indeed, consists of the exercise of two fine qualities. You must originate, and you must sympathise ; you must possess at the same time the habit of communicating...listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible. j Lady Everingham was not a celebrated beauty, but she was something infinitely more delightful, a... | |
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Lady Everingham thoroughly understood the art of conversation, which indeed consists of the exercise of two fine qualities. You must originate, and you must sympathize ; you must possess at the same time the habit of communicating, and the habit of listening.... 
