 | English literature - 1804 - 174 pages
...best knows how to conceal his necessity and desires, is the most likely person to find redress, and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, we shall find that they... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 492 pages
...best knows how to conceal his necessity and desires, is the most likely person to find redress, and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, we shall find that they... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 350 pages
...best knows how to conceal his necessity and desires, is the most likely person to find redress, and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favors, we shall find that they... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English essays - 1820 - 514 pages
...best knows how to conceal his necessities and desires, is the most likely person to find redress, and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, we shall find that they... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, there appears something... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 384 pages
...best knows how to conceal his necessities and desires, is the most likely person to find redress, and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, we shall find that they... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...best knows how to conceal his necessity and desires, is the most likely person to find redress ; and that the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants, as to conceal them. When we reflect on the manner in which mankind generally confer their favours, we shall find, that... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...best knows how to conceal his necessities and desires, is the most likely person to find redress, and that the true use of speech 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 gold.... | |
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... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. 
