| Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pagine
...agreeable to his company, as well as pleased in himself, in being only an hearer. It is a secret known but to few, .yet of no small •use in the conduct of life, that when you fell into a man's conversation, the first thing yon should consider is, •whether he has a greater... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 370 pagine
...agreeable to his company, as well as pleased in himself, in being only an hearer. It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life,...inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. The latter is the more general desire, and I know very able flatterers that never speak a word in praise... | |
| 1822 - 788 pagine
...small «se in the conduct of lite, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thingyou DNESDAY, AP1UL 25, 1711. Frr mullai adilum tM tirfe fgurat OVTD. Met. lir. 652 Through various sha The latter is the more general desire, and I know very able flatterers that never speak a word in praise... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 884 pagine
...agreeable to his company, as well as pleased in himself, in being only a hearer. It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life,...inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. The latter is the more general desire, and I know very able flatterers that never speak a word in praise... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 356 pagine
...agreeable to his company, aa well as pleased in himself, in being only a hearer. It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life,...inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. The latter is the more general desire, and I know very able flatterers that never speak a word in praise... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 450 pagine
...agreeable to his company, as well as pleased in himself, in being only an hearer. It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life,...thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater mclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. The latter is the more general desire, and I know... | |
| 1824 - 310 pagine
...agreeable to his company, as well as pleased in himself, in being only a hearer. It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life,...inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. The latter is the most general desire, and I know very able flatterers that never speak a word in praise... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pagine
...scorn to touch the school but by the proxie of an usher. — Fuller. CXLIX. It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life,...inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. — Sleele. CL. To smarter ends of Greek Or Latin to the rhetorique Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 pagine
...pow'r, on trays and deuces; To put it to the chance, and try, I' th ' ballot of a box and dye," ther he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.—Steele. CL. To smaiier ends of Greek Or Latin to the rhetorique To smarter French is meritorious;... | |
| 1833 - 814 pagine
...words giveth light ; it givcth understanding even to the simple." — COLERIDGE'S Aids to Reflection. IT is a secret known to few, yet of no small use in...inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. — ADDISON. LONDON : JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, 44o, (WEST) STRAND. Sold by all Booksellers and Newsreaders... | |
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