 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 279 pages
...social order, so a code of finalities is a necessary condition of profitable talk between two persons. Talking is like playing on the harp ; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. Do you mean... | |
 | 1866
...turn observe silence. " Talking. " says the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, " "is like playing on a harp ; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibrations, as in twanging them to bring out their music. " George Herbert «•ell puts it — " a... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870
...social order, so a code of finalities is a necessary condition of profitable talk between two persons. Talking is like playing on the harp ; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. Do you mean... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880
...social order, so a code of finalities is a necessary condition of profitable talk between two persons. Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. Do you mean... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 218 pages
...social order, so a code of finalities is a necessary condition of profitable talk between two persons. Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. Do you mean... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 107 pages
...social order, so a code of finalities is a necessary condition of profitable talk between two persons. Talking is like playing on the harp ; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. Do you mean... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 604 pages
...social order, so a code of finalities is a necessary condition of profitable talk between two persons. Talking is like playing on the harp ', there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. Do you mean... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 332 pages
...social order, so a code of finalities is a necessary condition of profitable talk between two persons. Talking is like playing on the harp ; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. — Do you... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 701 pages
...No. 179. We talk little if we do not talk about ourselves. 5298 . Ilazlitt: Characteristics. No. 172. Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibrations, as in twanging them to bring out their music. 5299 Holmes : Tlie Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 50 pages
...everybody says and nobody thinks ? THE PEOFESSOK AT THE BHEAKPAST-TAELE. 24. George William Curtis, 1824. Talking is like playing on the harp ; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. THE AUTOCEAT... | |
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Talking is like playing on the harp ; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. 
