 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1804 - 154 pages
...for drawing instruction and improvement from the company of one•s superiors in age and knowledge, namely, to be a patient, attentive, and well-bred...explanation upon a point, to do it with proper apologies fof the trouble you give: or if obliged to differ, to do it with all possible candour, and an unprejudiced... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 444 pages
...as for drawing instruction and improvement from the company of one's superior in age and knowledge ; namely, to be a patient, attentive, and well-bred...hearer, and to answer with modesty ; to deliver your own opinion sparingly, and with proper dirTtdence ; and, if you are forced to desire further information... | |
 | William Pitt - 1804 - 330 pages
...as for drawing instruction and improvement from the company of one's superiors in age and knowledge, namely, to be a patient, attentive, and well-bred hearer, and to answer withmodesty : to deliveryour own opinions sparingly and with proper diffidence; and if you are forced... | |
 | Literature - 1805 - 420 pages
...to he a patieut, attentive, and well bred hear•' er, and to answer with modesty ; to deliver youi own opinions sparingly * and with proper diffidence ; and, if you are forced to desire farther infer-* " iruticn or explanation upon a point, to do it with proper apologies for the' * trouble, you... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 424 pages
...for drawing instruction and improvement from the " company of one's superiors in age and knowledge; namely, to be a " patient, attentive, and well-bred hearer, and to answer with modesty. — " Pythagoras enjoined his scholars an absolute silence for a long noviciate. " I am far from approving... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...of one's superiors in age and knowledge ; namely, to be a patient, attentive, and well-bred bearer, and to answer with modesty: to deliver your own opinions...proper diffidence ; and if you are forced to desire further information or explanation upon a point, to'do it with proper apologies for the trouble you... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pages
...well as for drawing instruction and improvement from the company of superiors in age and knowledge: namely, to be a patient, attentive, and well-bred...hearer, and to answer with modesty; to deliver your cwn opinion sparingly, and with becoming diffidence; to request, when necessary, farther information... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - English language - 1814 - 400 pages
...well as for drawing instruction and improvement from the company of superiors in age and knowledge : namely, to be a patient, attentive, and well-bred...hearer, and to answer with modesty ; to deliver your •wn opinion sparingly, and with becoming diffidence ; to request, when necessary, farther information... | |
 | English letters - 1816 - 358 pages
...well as for drawing instruction and improvement from the company of superiors in age and knowledge : namely, to be a patient, attentive, and well-bred...hearer, and to answer with modesty ; to deliver your own opinion sparingly, and with becoming diffidence ; to request, when necessary, farther information or... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...for drawing instruction and improvement from the company of one's superiors in age and knowledge ; namely, to be a patient, attentive, and well-bred hearer, and to answer with modesty.' — •. — ' Pythagoras injoined his scholars an absolute silence for a long noviciate. I am far... | |
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... submission of your own lights to theirs, you will particularly practise that first and greatest rule for pleasing in conversation, as well as for drawing instruction and improvement from the company of one's superiors in age and knowledge ; namely,... 
