The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Dent, 1949 - Authors, English |
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... truth of this anecdote , for she had heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentick relation of facts , and such authority may there be for errour ; for he assured me , that his father made the verses , and wished ...
... truth of this anecdote , for she had heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentick relation of facts , and such authority may there be for errour ; for he assured me , that his father made the verses , and wished ...
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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 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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