...because the hand which offers it, wears a ring set with diamonds.—Franklin. A SECRET KNOWN TO FEW. It is a secret known to few, yet of no small use in...greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.—Addison. SLANDER. No; 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms...

...company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.—Izaak Walton. It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life,...you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing that you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear...

...unoffensive copiousness, and unenvied insipidity. (Kcmbersatton, — steeie. TT 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. Sir William Temple. TN Conversation, Humour is more than Wit, Easiness more than Knowledge ; few desire...

...school but by the proxie of an usher. — Fuller. cxux. I.,. a It is a secret known but to few, yet ef no small use in the conduct of life, that when you...inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. — Steele. ClJ W To smaller ends of Greek Or Latin be ihe rhetorique Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,...

...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,...conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether fie has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. — Steele. CL. To smatter...

...agreeable to his company, as well as pleased in himself, in being only a nearer. It is a secret known but fore intimated, a plan of it is laid and concerted (as all olhcr matters of importance The latter is the more general desire, and I know very able flatterers that never speak a word in praise...

...more than knowledge There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking reasonably. When you fall into a man's conversation, the first...consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear yon, or that you should hear him. He who is sedulously attentive — who pointedly asks, coolly answers...

...appears some slight incongruity in the combination of the words, as in the quotations following : " When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is — ."f Properly, " fall into conversation with a man." " 1 wish, sir, you would animadvert frequently...

...act of injustice ; it is an encroachment on the common right of mankind. It is a secret known to very few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that...inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. He that converses not with man, knoweth nothing. To subject ourselves to inconvenience, is the rule...

...appears some slight incongruity in the combination of the words, as in the quotations following : " When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is — ."f Properly, " fall into conversation with a man." " 1 wish, sir, you wouid animadvert frequently...