The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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Page 149
... 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 sin- gle cavillers , can very little weaken the gen- eral evidence ; and some who ...
... 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 sin- gle cavillers , can very little weaken the gen- eral evidence ; and some who ...
Page 199
... 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 . " 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 ...
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