Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volumen2 |
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What can savages tell , but what they themselves have seen ? Of the past , or the
invi . sible , they can tell nothing . The inhabitants of Otaheite and New Zealand
are not in a state of pure nature ; for it is plain they broke off from some other ...
What can savages tell , but what they themselves have seen ? Of the past , or the
invi . sible , they can tell nothing . The inhabitants of Otaheite and New Zealand
are not in a state of pure nature ; for it is plain they broke off from some other ...
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He would have to tell of almost all the Jiving great what they do not wish told . ” —
GOLD“ It may , perhaps , be necessary for a native to be more cautious ; but a
foreigner , who comes among us without prejudice , may be considered as ...
He would have to tell of almost all the Jiving great what they do not wish told . ” —
GOLD“ It may , perhaps , be necessary for a native to be more cautious ; but a
foreigner , who comes among us without prejudice , may be considered as ...
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G . “ There are people who tell a hundred political lies every day , and are not
hurt by it . Surely then one may tell truth with safety . ” - J . “ Why , Sir , in the first
place , he who tells a hundred lies has disarmed the force of his lies . But besides
; a ...
G . “ There are people who tell a hundred political lies every day , and are not
hurt by it . Surely then one may tell truth with safety . ” - J . “ Why , Sir , in the first
place , he who tells a hundred lies has disarmed the force of his lies . But besides
; a ...
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Nobody has a right to put another under such a difficulty , that he must either hurt
the person by telling the truth , or hurt ... nature , or from their not being able to tell
the truth firmly , a commendation of which he may afterwards avail himself .
Nobody has a right to put another under such a difficulty , that he must either hurt
the person by telling the truth , or hurt ... nature , or from their not being able to tell
the truth firmly , a commendation of which he may afterwards avail himself .
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A man who gives the natural history of the oak , is not to tell how many oaks have
been planted in this place or that . A man who gives the natural history of the cow
, is not to tell how many cows are milked at Islington . The animal is the same ...
A man who gives the natural history of the oak , is not to tell how many oaks have
been planted in this place or that . A man who gives the natural history of the cow
, is not to tell how many cows are milked at Islington . The animal is the same ...
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| Título | Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volumen2 Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | J. Mawman, 1807 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 20 Abr. 2017 |
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