 And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied...  The St. James's Magazine - Seite 33herausgegeben von - 1762Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 502 Seiten
...which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves. There are two faults in conversation, which appear very... | |
 | Stanley V. Makower, Basil H. Blackwell - 1913 - 614 Seiten
...which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid ; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves. There are two faults in conversation, which appear very... | |
 | Florence Howe Hall - 1916 - 144 Seiten
...which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves." Dean Swift's advice is excellent, although he does not... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 Seiten
...which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid ; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves. There are two faults in conversation, which appear very... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 Seiten
...which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves. There are two faults in conversation, which appear very... | |
 | 1856 - 596 Seiten
...a thing which, any of the company can reasonably wish we had left unsaid ; nor can anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves.' It was indignation at the perversion of an innocent and... | |
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