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... truth . " [ Rambler , No. 60. ] What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and ...
... truth . " [ Rambler , No. 60. ] What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and ...
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... truth is every where confess'd , SLOW RISES WORTH , BY POVERTY DEPRESS'D ! " " " We may easily conceive with what feeling a great mind like his , cramped and galled by narrow circumstances , uttered this last line , which he marked by ...
... truth is every where confess'd , SLOW RISES WORTH , BY POVERTY DEPRESS'D ! " " " We may easily conceive with what feeling a great mind like his , cramped and galled by narrow circumstances , uttered this last line , which he marked by ...
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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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