 Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company, — this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated,...  Letters, Sentences, and Maxims - Σελίδα 148των Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1888 - 327 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 σελίδες
...to see him die before him, when he was scarcely thirty-six years old (1768). HINTS OX CONVERSATION. Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you arc sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company ; this... | |
 | Lafayette Charles Loomis - 1880 - 126 σελίδες
...unfavorable impressions as to the good-breeding of the person using them. 5. When you are in company talk often, but never long. In that case, if you do not please you are sure not to tire your hearers. There are many persons who, though they have nothing to talk... | |
 | 1888 - 634 σελίδες
...conversation — not speech-making — they observed Lord Chesterfield's rule : " Pay your own reckoning, bnt do not treat the whole company; this being one of...being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay." Thefr continual practice gave the easy air of spontaneity to their most elaborate preparations, and... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 σελίδες
...converse, they talk to themselves only. 52i(2 A. Bronson Alcott : Concord Days. May, Conversation. Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do...not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 σελίδες
...talk to themselves only. 5292 A. Branson Alcott : Concord Days. May, Conversation. Talk often, hut never long; in that case, if you do not please, at...not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 σελίδες
...5292 A. Bronson Alcott : Concord Days. May, Conversation. Talk often, but never long; in that ease, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to...not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1891 - 302 σελίδες
...gaming club should be a cheat or he will soon be a beggar. Letters to his Godson, p. 392. Company. Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you...convinced that he has wherewithal to pay. Tell stories very seldom, and absolutely never but where they are very apt, and very short. Omit every circumstance... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 514 σελίδες
...dancingmaster, and to your own attention to the best models; remembeiv however, that they are of consequence. f Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you...convinced that he has wherewithal to pay. Tell stories very seldom, and absolutely never but where they lare very apt, and very short. Omit every circumstance... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1893 - 152 σελίδες
...experience and observation enable me to lay down, and communicate to you with some degree of confidence. Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do...convinced that he has wherewithal to pay. Tell stories very seldom, and absolutely never but where they are very apt and very short. Omit every circumstance... | |
 | Maud C. Cooke - 1896 - 540 σελίδες
...Lord Chesterfield, " but never long ; in thai case if you do not please, at least you are sure no\ to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the entire company : this bein^ one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every... | |
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