...offensive, is that in which it affects bur conversation. We have indeed, like Anthemis, listened to the I, I, I, till we have thought it the worst-sounding letter...belongs to them : and to the rapid growing of this unwatched habit, may probably be attributed the ridiculous and offensive egotism of many persons in...

...their brothers and sisters, because they are the only people they know : if they talk of anybody's affairs, it must be their own, because they are acquainted...themselves, for they hear nothing of what happens to anybody else. As soon, therefore, as children begin to converse, it is most likely to be about themselves,...

...their brothers, and sisters, because they are the only people they know ; if they talk of anybody's affairs, it must be their own, because they are acquainted...themselves, for they hear nothing of what happens to anybody else. As soon, therefore, as children begin to converse, it is most likely to be about themselves,...

...have their conversation listened to with pleasure, they must be economists with self as their subject. On behalf of the very young, we certainly have it...belongs to them ; and to the rapid growing of this unwatched habit, may probably be attributed the ridiculous and offensive egotism of many persons in...

...their brothers and sisters, because they are the only people they know — if they talk of anybody's affairs, it must be their own, because they are acquainted...themselves, for they hear nothing of what happens to anybody else. As soon, therefore, as children begin to converse, it is most likely to be about themselves,...