 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 to gratify my vanity at the expense...  Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides - Stran 139avtor: James Boswell, John Wilson Croker - 1851 - 874 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 strani
...other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 strani
...other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 strani
...other sceptical innovators are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have...could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have acquired. Every thing which Hume has advanced against Christianity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 strani
...will gratify themselves at ¡my expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; io they have betaken themselves to error. Truth, Sir, is a cow which oill yield such people uo more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 strani
...other sceptical innovators are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have...could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I have acquired. Every thing which Hume has advanced against Christianity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 strani
...other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity ; so they have...could have allowed myself to gratify my vanity at the expence of truth, what fame might I hare acquired. Every thing which Hume has advanced against Christianity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 372 strani
...other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense: truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken themselves to error. Truth, sirj is a cow, which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If... | |
 | 1821 - 372 strani
...other sceptical innovators, are vain'men, and will gratify themselves at any expense : truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have...themselves to error. Truth, sir, is a cow, which will yield snch people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. If I could have allowed myself to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 strani
...other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expense. 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 strani
...other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. 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... | |
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