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" And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid : nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied... "
The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. In Thirteen ... - Página 205
de Jonathan Swift - 1774
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English Literature: From Milton to Johnson, by Edmund Goose

Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 páginas
...thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid : nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves. Swift declared that if the world had contained a dozen Arbuthnots...
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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 10

Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 502 páginas
...thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves. There are two faults in conversation, which appear very...
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English Essays from Sir Philip Sidney Macaulay

1910 - 450 páginas
...thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves. There are two faults in conversation, which appear very...
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A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)

Stanley V. Makower, Basil H. Blackwell - 1913 - 614 páginas
...thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid ; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves. There are two faults in conversation, which appear very...
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A-B-C of Correct Speech and the Art of Conversation

Florence Howe Hall - 1916 - 144 páginas
...thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves." Dean Swift's advice is excellent, although he does not...
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English Prose: Seventeenth century

Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 páginas
...thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid ; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves. There are two faults in conversation, which appear very...
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Jonathan Swift: Selections

Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 páginas
...thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid; nor can there anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together, than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves. There are two faults in conversation, which appear very...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 98

1856 - 596 páginas
...to say a thing which, any of the company can reasonably wish we had left unsaid ; nor can anything be well more contrary to the ends for which people meet together than to part unsatisfied with each other or themselves.' It was indignation at the perversion of an innocent and...
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