The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... truth , or hurt himself by telling what is not true . " BOSWELL . " A man often shows his writings to people of eminence , to obtain from them , either from their good - nature , or from their not being able to tell the truth firmly , a ...
... truth , or hurt himself by telling what is not true . " BOSWELL . " A man often shows his writings to people of eminence , to obtain from them , either from their good - nature , or from their not being able to tell the truth firmly , a ...
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... truth , in the account which is given of almost everything . I told Mrs. Thrale , ' You have so little anxiety about truth , that you never tax your memory with the ex- act thing . Now what is the use of the memory to truth , if one is ...
... truth , in the account which is given of almost everything . I told Mrs. Thrale , ' You have so little anxiety about truth , that you never tax your memory with the ex- act thing . Now what is the use of the memory to truth , if one is ...
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... truth : ' Physi cal truth is , when you tell a thing as it actually is . Moral truth is , when you tell a thing sincerely and precisely as it appears to you . I say such a one walked across the street ; if he really did so , I told a ...
... truth : ' Physi cal truth is , when you tell a thing as it actually is . Moral truth is , when you tell a thing sincerely and precisely as it appears to you . I say such a one walked across the street ; if he really did so , I told a ...
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