 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 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 be"en considered, and cannot be recalled."* Addison's character in this respect is well known ; and it is recorded of Corneille, that when the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 450 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...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 454 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...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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1855 - 360 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the tune 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 - 1856 - 188 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. If thou hast never tasted the holy peace which descends into the simplest heart, when it fervently... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 360 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...at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot he recalled. That benevolence which prompted Jesus to incessant exertion; which supported him through... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 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 slnggishuess in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly wanted... | |
 | John Wilson - 1868 - 376 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. That benevolence which prompted Jesus to incessant exertion; which supported him through unparalleled.... | |
 | George Thomas Coster - 1869 - 112 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." In the pulpit, however, his tongue was as the pen of a ready writer. Yet he had very lowly views of... | |
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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... 
