 | Paul Guesdon - 1867 - 352 σελίδες
...is owing to a scarcity of matter and scarcity of words; for whoever is a master of language and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to...clothe them in, and these are always ready at the month. So people come faster ont of a churcb. when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1868 - 526 σελίδες
...owing to a scarcity of matter, and a scarcity of words, for whoever is a master of language and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both i whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in ; and... | |
 | Agnes Giberne - 1869 - 412 σελίδες
...speech in some men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter and scarcity of words * * * * for common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one...them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. " — SWIFT. " AIMEE, I can't think why you don't manage to see more of your friends." " Of Elsie,... | |
 | Charles Hole - 1871 - 288 σελίδες
...things heard and learned. It is the treasury of knowledge and the mother of the Muses. Common people have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are ready at the mouth, just as people come faster out of church when it is almost empty than when a crowd... | |
 | 1871
...eager and rapid in pouring -forth a 840 The Art of Conversation. [October, stream of words ; just as ' people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty than when it is filled with a crowd.' As the vices of conversation have their roots in the vices of our nature... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 434 σελίδες
...owing to a scarcity of matter, and a scarcity of words ; for whoever is a master of language, and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate...ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in : and theso are always at the mouth ; as people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 434 σελίδες
...owing to a scarcity of matter, and a scarcity of words ; for whoever is a master of language, and has a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate...upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers hava only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in : and these are always at the mouth... | |
 | Walton Burgess - 1873 - 88 σελίδες
...moreover has a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to liesi tate upon the choice of both ; but common speakers have only one set of ideas and one...them in, — and these are always ready at the mouth. Just so, people can come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 σελίδες
...owing to a scarcity of matter, and a scarcity of word»; 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 speakers llave only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these arc always ready at... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 σελίδες
...owing to a scarcity of 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...clothe them in ; and these are always ready at the month ; so people come faster out of church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.... | |
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of 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... 
