 | 1891 - 556 страница
...owing to a soarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both. Swift. Л talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences by blabbing out his own or others'... | |
 | James Hay - 1891 - 390 страница
...rising sun, and not the setting. THE ELOQUENCE OF SUPERFICIALITY. The common fluency of speech in'many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words. CLERICAL TACT. Discretion is nowhere so serviceable as to the clergy.—Vol. vp 113. THE TARES AMONG... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 страница
...such constant irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people. THE common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of...of words ; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 452 страница
...largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of...of words; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 страница
...The close observer can espy / A noble soul and lineage high. Byron. The common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words. Swift. The common "keeping up appearances" of society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the... | |
 | 1893 - 386 страница
...devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of VOL. 1. matter and a scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 страница
...that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed. — Sir Walter Raltigh. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of...master of language and has a mind full of ideas will bo apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; wherens common speakers have only one set... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 страница
...largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincere part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of...of words ; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 страница
...largest tribute Heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter and scarcity of words : for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 462 страница
...largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of...of words; for whoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common... | |
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... a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people come faster out of... 
