 | Philip Dormer Stanhope - 1810 - 468 σελίδες
...you impatience under your affliction. Take, rather than give, the tone of the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them, more or less, upon every suhject ; and if you have nnt, you had hetter talk sillily upon a suhject of other people's than of... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1815 - 360 σελίδες
...a good while, often occasions a temporary alienation ou each side. r Avoid argument , if possible. Avoid , as much as you can , in mixed companies , argumentative , polemical conversations ; which certainly indispose, for a time, the contending parties towards each other ; and , if the con56 Contradite... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 σελίδες
...provokes a second.—Sterne. DLXXXIH. Take, rather than give, the tone of the company you are in. If you have parts, you will show them, more or less,...talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than your own choosing.—Chesterfield. DLXXXIV. Mr. Locke has somewhere made a distinction between a madman... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 σελίδες
...provokes a second. — Sterne. DLXXXm. Take, rather than give, the tone of the company you are in. If you have parts, you will show them, more or less,...talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than your own choosing. — Chesterfield. DLXXXIV. Mr. Locke has somewhere made a distinction between a... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1831 - 290 σελίδες
...Adopt rather than give the subject. Take, rather than give, the subject of the company you are in. If you have parts, you will show them, more or less, upon every subject ; and if you have not, you had hetter talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing. Conceal your learning... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 σελίδες
...knows: take, rather than give the subject of the company you are in. If you have parts, you will shew them, more or less, upon every subject ; and, if you...better talk sillily upon a sub'ject of other people's choosing than of your own. inattention which I mean. I have seen many people who, while you are speaking... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1836 - 96 σελίδες
...hearers. Take, rather than give, the tone of the company you are in. If you have parts you will shew them more or less upon every subject ; and if you...talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than any of your own choosing. LEIHN THE CHARACTERS OF THE COMPANY BEFORE YOU TALK MUCH. — Inform yourself... | |
 | 1841 - 300 σελίδες
...Adopt rather than give the subject. Take, rather than give, the subject of the company you are in. If you have parts, you will show them, more or less, upon every subject; and if you have not, you bad better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing. Conceal your learning... | |
 | 1845 - 718 σελίδες
...better hold your tongue than them. ; : ' Take rather than give the tone of the company you are in. If you have parts, you will show them, more or less, upon every subject; and if you had not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing. ,,... | |
 | 1845 - 562 σελίδες
...better hold yoar tongue than them. ' Take rather than give the tone of the company you are in. If yon have parts, you will show them, more or less, upon every subject; and if you had not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing. '... | |
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Take, rather than give, the tone of the company you are in. If you have parts, you will show them, more or less, upon every subject; and, if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing. 
