The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: Including A Journal of a Tour to the HebridesHarper & Brothers, 1863 |
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... truth was essen- [ 89 . tial to it . " [ On another occasion Poz , he said , " A story is a specimen of hunan manners , and derives its sole value from its truth . When Foote has told me something , I dismiss it from my mind , like a ...
... truth was essen- [ 89 . tial to it . " [ On another occasion Poz , he said , " A story is a specimen of hunan manners , and derives its sole value from its truth . When Foote has told me something , I dismiss it from my mind , like a ...
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... truth , that you never tax your memory with the exact thing . Now what is the use of the memo- ry to truth , if one is careless of exactness ? Lord Hailes's ' Annals of Scotland ' are very exact ; but they contain mere dry particu- lars ...
... truth , that you never tax your memory with the exact thing . Now what is the use of the memo- ry to truth , if one is careless of exactness ? Lord Hailes's ' Annals of Scotland ' are very exact ; but they contain mere dry particu- lars ...
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... truth : Physical truth is , when you tell a thing as it actually is . Moral truth is , when you tell a thing sin- cerely 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 : Physical truth is , when you tell a thing as it actually is . Moral truth is , when you tell a thing sin- cerely 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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