Boswell's Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1903 - 718 strani |
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Stran 119
... truth , which he held very sacred , or to take a licence , which a learned divine told me he once seemed in a conversation jocularly to allow to historians . " There are , " said he , " inexcusable lies , and consecrated lies . For ...
... truth , which he held very sacred , or to take a licence , which a learned divine told me he once seemed in a conversation jocularly to allow to historians . " There are , " said he , " inexcusable lies , and consecrated lies . For ...
Stran 254
... 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 ...
Stran 643
... truth . Besides , you are not sure what effect your telling him that he is in danger may have . It may bring his distemper to a crisis , and that may cure him . Of all lying I have the greatest abhorrence of this , because I believe it ...
... truth . Besides , you are not sure what effect your telling him that he is in danger may have . It may bring his distemper to a crisis , and that may cure him . Of all lying I have the greatest abhorrence of this , because I believe it ...
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