Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1960 - 1491 páginas |
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... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed ...
... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have betaken themselves to errour . Truth , Sir , is a cow which will yield such people no more milk , and so they are gone to milk the bull . If I could have allowed ...
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... truth with safety . ' JOHN- SON . ' Why , Sir , in the first place , he who tells a hundred lies has disarmed the force of his lies . But besides ; a man had rather have a hundred lies told of him , than one truth which he does not wish ...
... truth with safety . ' JOHN- SON . ' Why , Sir , in the first place , he who tells a hundred lies has disarmed the force of his lies . But besides ; a man had rather have a hundred lies told of him , than one truth which he does not wish ...
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... truth has a right to suffer . I am afraid there is no other way of ascertaining the truth , but by persecution on the one hand and enduring it on the other . ' GOLDSMITH . ' But how is a man to act , Sir ? Though firmly convinced of the ...
... truth has a right to suffer . I am afraid there is no other way of ascertaining the truth , but by persecution on the one hand and enduring it on the other . ' GOLDSMITH . ' But how is a man to act , Sir ? Though firmly convinced of the ...
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Dedication to Sir Joshua Reynolds | 1 |
Advertisement to the Third Edition | 9 |
Life of Samuel Johnson | 19 |
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