 | John Wilson - 1871 - 356 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past; or whose attention to their own character makes them...what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. EXERCISES TO BE WRITTEN. Insert semicolons or commas between the particulars of each series in these... | |
 | John Wilson - 1871 - 364 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past; or whose attention to their own character makes them...what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. EXERCISES TO BE WRITTEN. In&ert semicolons or commas between the particulars of each series m these... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly wanted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. DIUQEJMCE. As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 448 pages
...exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to thetr own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled."1 The tendency, however, of scholastic disputations to cure these defects, it must not be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly wanted... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 506 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...has not been considered, and cannot be recalled." * Addison's character in this respect is well known ; and it is recorded of Corneille, that when the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...has not been considered, and cannot be recalled." 4 Addison's character in this respect is well known ; and it is recorded of Corneille, that when the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 538 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...has not been considered, and cannot be recalled." * Addison's character in this respect is well known ; and it is recorded of Corneille, that when the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly wanted... | |
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There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to... 
