 | School - 1783 - 358 pages
...and abfolutely never, but where they are very apt, and very fhort, Never hold any body by the button, in order to be heard out; for if people are not willing to hear you, you bad much bitter hold your tongue than they. Long talkers generally fingle out fome perfon in company... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1802 - 252 pages
...companies, more wrong heads than rl^/'jl ones-. — more people will deferve than who will bear cenlure. 7. Never hold any body by the button or the hand, in order to be heard through у°1!Г йогу ; for if the people are not wiL ling to hear you, you had much bitter hold... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...more -wrong heads than right onus — more people who viillcleserve, than who will tear censure. 7. Never hold any body by the button or the hand, in order to be heard through your story ; for if the people are not willing to hear you, you had much better hold your tongue... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1809 - 202 pages
...5. Frequent good company— copy their manners— imitate their virtues and accomplishments. •^ 7. Never hold any body by the button or the hand, in order to be heard through your story ; for if the people are itot williiig to hear you, you had much better hold your... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 430 pages
...narrative, betrays great want of imagination. Never hold any body bv the button, or the Laud, in order 112 to be heard out ; for if people are not willing to hear TOO, you bad mueh better hold your tongue than them. Most long talkers single out some one unfortunate... | |
 | Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...the midst of our narrative. 38. Some people have a trick of holding the persons they are speaking to by the button, 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... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...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. DLIV. much reading,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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. DLIV. much reading,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1831 - 290 pages
...name and expression ready at hand, that you may not be obliged oviu-y B Seizing people by the button. Never hold any body by the button, or the hand, in order to he heard out. for if people are not willii!Mi;irut to interrupt your nurration, and inquire of other... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...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;...hear you, you had much better hold your tongue than t/iey. ones, and many more who deserve censure than like it. Should you therefore expatiate in the... | |
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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. 
