 | 1836 - 932 pagine
...pleased in himself, in being only a hearer. It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use jn ching tenderness and rapture, that it might have been...occasioned great calamities to this poetical lady. She fe The latter is the more general desire, and I know very able flatterers that never speak a word in praise... | |
 | 1836 - 1118 pagine
...agreeable to his company, as well as pleased in himself, in being only a hearer. It is a secret known but z J K p , ha» a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. The latter is the more general... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 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 fajl into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 274 pagine
...weeds or flowers of a wild growth. — Spectator. A Secret. — It is a secret known but to a feu-, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when...inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him. — Steele. cxxiv. Effect* of Prohibition. — Man seldom has a strong desire for any lawful thing... | |
 | 536 pagine
...these seven ways before thou speakest it ; and there will never come any barm from what thoushalt say. IT is a secret known to few, yet of no small use in...life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, that the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 pagine
...wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. — Pope. It is a secret known to few, yet of no small use in...greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear \um.—Addison. An ingenious French writer observes, that those who depend on the merits of their ancestors,... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1840 - 954 pagine
...in her stead as lady paramount of Tiverton Castle. CHAPTER III. When you fall into a man's company, the first thing you should consider is, whether he...greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear Aim." Sm RICHARD STEELE. THE new Earl and Countess of Tiverton were perhaps a degree less unamiable... | |
 | 1841 - 644 pagine
...when you fall into & ji man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, || whether he ha* a greater inclination to hear you, or that || you should hear him.— Stctlc. Original. THE CROSS. BT PRANCES 5. 03GOOD. " WHAT did he preach about, mamma ?" My little girl... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pagine
...agreeable to his company, ag well as pleased in himself, in being only a hearer. It is a secret known but e shined `^l The latter is the more general desire, and I know very able flatterers that never speak a word in praise... | |
 | 1846 - 110 pagine
...adapted to the time when, the place where, the person to whom it is spoken. 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. — Steele. One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety... | |
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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. 
