Bury, Lancashire.
"_Words are given to man to conceal his thoughts_" (Vol. vi., p.
575.).--This saying _may_ be anterior to Dr. South's time, as the first
number of _The World_, under the assumed name of Adam Fitz-Adam, Thursday,
January 4, 1753, begins with the following:
"At the village of Arouche, in the province of Estremadura (says an old
Spanish author), lived Gonzales {165} de Castro, who from the age of
twelve to fifty-two years was deaf, dumb, and blind."
After relating the sudden restoration of his faculties, "Fitz-Adam"
proceeds:
"But, as if the blessings of this life were only given us for
afflictions, he began in a few weeks to lose the relish of his
enjoyments, and to repine at the possession of those faculties, which
served only to discover to him the follies and disorders of his
neighbours, and to teach him that _the intent of speech was too often
to deceive_."
It may serve to probe the matter of _age_ to ask, Who was "the old Spanish
author" alluded to? Also, where may be found the hexameter line--
"[Greek: hos ch' heteron men keuthei eni phresin allo de bazei.]"
equivalent to the common expression, "He says one thing and means another,"
and of which the maxim attribute to Goldsmith, Talleyrand, the _Morning
Chronicle_, and South, seems only a stronger form?