The Life of Samuel Johnson, Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1G. Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1909 |
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Pagina 256
... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity so they have betaken themselves to error . 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 myself ...
... Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity so they have betaken themselves to error . 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 myself ...
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... truth with safety . " JOHNSON : " 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 . " JOHNSON : " 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 ...
Pagina 153
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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