 | 1863 - 588 pagine
...her flowers, Her love in perfumes breathing. IT is a secret known but to few, yet of no small usein the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's...inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. — Stecle. AL INE: Shtfch, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. BT C. SEARS LANCASTER. IV.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 472 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, that when you fall intq a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pagine
...rather be laid out on things than persons. Quoted, -WATTS— On the Mind. 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. Spectator. ONE thing which makes us find so fow people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation... | |
 | 1867 - 588 pagine
...will often give one the reputation of being a charming talker. Stecle says, " It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into i man's conversation, the first thing that you should consider is whether he has a greater inclination... | |
 | 1872 - 502 pagine
...wanting, there is reason to suspect the absence of the other. — Sterne, 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. — Stcele. 83 THE LAND OF THE ROUMANS. BY BUSCAN H'GKEGOR. AT the foot of the Carpathian Mountains... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 pagine
...room for answers and replies. The first thing to consider in falling into conversation with any one is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. — Stefle. In conversation, humor is more than wit, easiness more than knowledge; few desire to learn,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 pagine
...answers and replies. The first thing to consider in railing into conversation with any one is, whether ho has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. — Stetle. In conversation, humor is more than wit, easiness more than knowledge ; few desire to learn,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pagine
...it, are the clown, the wit, and the pedant. SIR R. STEELE: Toiler, No. 244. 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... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pagine
...controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath. Coleridge. CONVERSATION. 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. Steele, Spectator, No. 49. CONVERSATION. THE progress of a private... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1880 - 392 pagine
...in weeds or Cowers of a wild growth. — Spectator. XXXIX. SECRET. — It is a secret known but to a few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that...inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. — Steele. XL. FFECTS OF PROHIBITION. — Man seldom has a strong desire for any lawful thing that... | |
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It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. 
