 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pages
...the use of language is generally thus : — " Language has been granted to man, in order to discover — these are questions that never can be explained,...consolation. " In this situation man has called in tme use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 pages
...enough; but men, who know the world, maintain very contrary maxims; they hold, and, [ think, with home show of reason, that he who best knows how to conceal...person to find redress, and that the true use of speech was not so much to express our wauts as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 pages
...these several kinds of brutal faces in human features. 2 I remember in the life of the famous Prince 1 'The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.' Goldsmith's Bee, No. 3. (Works, vol. ip 51, Putnam's ed.) The most recent form in which I remember... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, English - 1870 - 444 pages
...dissimulation. " Men of the world," says he 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 hem." How often is this quoted as one of the subtle remarks of the fine-witted Talleyrand ! " The Good-natured... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1870 - 644 pages
...dissimulation. " Men of the world," says he 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 .hem." How often is this quoted as one of the 3ubtle remarks of the fine-witted Talleyrand ! INTERMEDDLING... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1873 - 662 pages
...how to conceal his necessity and desires is the most likely person to find redress; and the true itse of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." In the lAfe of William WilberforKe that excellent man's wellmeaning biographers were imposed on by... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - Quotations, French - 1875 - 646 pages
...discloses their character.' In "Goldsmith's Works," 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." C'est pir qu'un crime, c'est un bêtise. It i» worse than a crime, it is a blunder. This is a saying... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...best knows how to conceal his necessity and desires is the most likely person to find redress } and the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as. to conceal them" Nearly a century before this, Dr. South preached a sermon in Westminster Abbey, on The Wisdom of the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index. The Bee. No. \. 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...who best knows how to keep his necessities private is the most likely person to have them redressed ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. GOLDSMITH : Essays, No. V. The reader must not he surprised to find me once more addressing schoolmasters... | |
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... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. 
