The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1National ilustrated library, 1851 |
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... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
Page 226
... truth ; those that never heard of one another , would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible . That it is doubted by single cavillers , can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it ...
... truth ; those that never heard of one another , would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible . That it is doubted by single cavillers , can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it ...
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... 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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