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A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed ... - Page 433
by William Minto - 1881 - 548 pages
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Select British Classics, Volume 3

1804 - 174 pages
...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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith..

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 492 pages
...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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.

Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 350 pages
...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...
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Essays and The Bee, Volumes 1-2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 514 pages
...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...
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Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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...
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The British Prose Writers...: Goldsmith's essays, and Bee

1821 - 384 pages
...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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of ..., Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...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,...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...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...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...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...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...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...
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