 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1801 - 474 էջ
...greffions. To have frequent recourfe to narrative, betrays great want of imagination. Never hold any body by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out ; for, if people are not willing to hear you, you had much better hold your tongue than them. Moft... | |
 | 1824 - 348 էջ
...excuse for a man's behaviour, if he were to leave us in the midst of our narrative. 38. Some people have a trick of holding the persons they are speaking...or the hand, in order to be heard out, conscious, 1 suppose, that their tale is tiresome. Pray, never do this ; if the person you speak to is not as... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1827 - 420 էջ
...digressions. To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. Never hold any body by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out ; for, if people are not willing to hear you, you had much better hold your tongue than them. Most... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 էջ
...that he received it of another who is doing the same elsewhere. — Adventurer. Never hold any one by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. — Chesterfield.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 էջ
...he received it of another who is doing the same elsewhere. — Adventurer. DLIII. Never hold any one by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. —Chesterfield.... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 էջ
...digressions. To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. Never hold any person by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out; for, if people are not willing to hear you, you had much better hold your tongue than t/iey. ones,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1836 - 96 էջ
...narrative betrays great want of imagination. SEIZING PEOPLE BY THE BUTTON. — Never hold any body by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out ; for, if people are not willing to hear you, you had much better hold your tongue than them. LONG... | |
 | 1845 - 562 էջ
...digressions. To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. ' Never hold any body by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out ; for, if people are not willing to hear you, you had much better hold yoar tongue than them. ' Take... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1847 - 492 էջ
...digressions. To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. Never hold anybody by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out ; for, if people are not willing to hear you, you had much better hold your tongue than them. Most... | |
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Never hold anybody by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are not willing to hear you, you had much better hold your tongue than them. 
