Of arguers, perpetual contradictors, long talkers, those who are absent in company, interrupters, not listeners, loud laughers. Of those men and women whose face is ever in a smile, talk ever with a smile, condole with a smile, &c. Argument, as usually... The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin - الصفحة 325بواسطة Jonathan Swift - 1801عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Jonathan Swift - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...long talkers, those who are absent in company, interrupters, not listeners, loud laughers. Of those men and women whose face is ever in a smile, talk...of reading. Good conversation is not to be expected irt much company, because few listen, and there i* continual interruption. But good or ill manners... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...long talkers, those who are absent in company, interrupters, not listeners, loud laughers. Of those men and women whose face is ever in a smile, talk...of reading. Good conversation is not to be expected iii much company, because few listen, and there is continual interruption. But good or ill manners... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...pwes it3 reception to some local or accidental association of ideas. — Sir J. Reynolds. MDXXIII. Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of...it is generally in books the worst sort of reading. — Swift. MDXXIV. MDXXV. Some persons make their own epitaphs, and bespeak the reader's good-will.... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...nation, owes its reception to some local or accidental association of ideas. — Sir J. Reynolds. MDXXIIL Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of...it is generally in books the worst sort of reading. — Swift. MDXXIV. I think a prudent man ought not to permit any thing at all to trust to fortune;... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 900
...long talkers, those who are absent in company, interrupters, not listeners, loud laughers. Of those men and women whose face is ever in a smile, talk ever with a smile, condole with a smile, £c. Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation ; as it is generally in books... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...increase and strengthen themselves, by the practice and experience of them. — Socrates. ARGUMENT. — Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of...is generally, in books, the worst sort of reading. — Sidft. ARMIES. — Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power, for the time... | |
| John Wilson - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...of good and evil throughout the universe ; but good is in the ascendant, and must triumph at last. Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of...is generally, in books, the worst sort of reading. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America,... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 188
...is both a cause and an effect ; being the effect of what goes before, and the cause of what follows. Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of...is generally, in books, the worst sort of reading. It is the first point of wisdom to weird off evils ; the second, to make them beneficial. Employ your... | |
| John Timbs - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...owes its reception to some local or accidental association of ideas. — Sir J. Reynolds. MDXXIII. Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of...it is generally in books the worst sort of reading. — Swift. MDXXIV. I think a prudent man ought not to permit any thing at all to trust to fortune ;... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...of good and evil throughout the universe ; but good is in the ascendant, and must triumph at last. Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of...is generally, in books, the worst sort of reading. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn ; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America,... | |
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