 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...hest 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 oar wants, as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...they hold, and I think with some show of reason, that he who best knows how to conceal his necessities and desires, is the most likely person to find redress,...not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. — Goldsmith. MCXL. A diamond, Though set in horn, is still a diamond, And sparkles as in purest gold.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...they hold, and I think with some show of reason, that he who best knows how to conceal his necessities and desires, is the most likely person to find redress,...is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.—Goldsmith. MCXL. A diamond, Though set in horn, is still a diamond, And sparkles as in purest... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 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. DCCCLXI. When upon a trial a man calls witnesses to Iiis character, and those witnesses... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...best knows how to keep llis 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. DCCCLXL When upon a trial a man calls witnesses to his character, and those witnesses... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...they hold, and I think with some shew of reason, that he who best knows how to conceal his necessities and desires, is the most likely person to find redress,...not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. (1) [This was related of Mr. Thomas Sheridan, son of the friend of Swift, and fattier of Hichard Brinsley... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...that he who best knows how to keep his necessities private, is the most likely to have them redressed; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.—Goldsmith. 1067. Ovid finely compares a man of broken fortune to a falling column; the lower... | |
 | Great Britain - 1839 - 204 pages
...thought so, and said so ; but so had Goldsmith long before him, who tells us in his fifth essay, " that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." Lady Hobart was probably Dorothy, wife of Chief Justice Sir Henry Hobart, daughter of Sir Robert Bell,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1839 - 446 pages
...thought so, and said so; but so had Goldsmith long before him, who tells us, in his fifth essay, " that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them." Lady Hobart was probably Dorothy, wife of Chief Justice Sir Henry Hobart, daughter of Sir Robert Bell,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...enough, but men who know the world maintain very contrary maxims; they hold, and I think with some show of reason, that he who best knows how to conceal his...find redress ; and that the true use of speech is not eo much to express our wants, as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally... | |
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... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them. 
