The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volum 3Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1866 |
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... Truth - His Opinion on Ghosts -John Wesley - Henry Constantine Jennings and Alcibiades ' Dog - Boar of Florence - Emigration - The House of Commons - Place - hunters - Irish Language -Thicknesse's Travels - Anecdote of Sir Godfrey ...
... Truth - His Opinion on Ghosts -John Wesley - Henry Constantine Jennings and Alcibiades ' Dog - Boar of Florence - Emigration - The House of Commons - Place - hunters - Irish Language -Thicknesse's Travels - Anecdote of Sir Godfrey ...
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... truth of them : when a man has nothing to lose he may be in good humour with his opponent . Accordingly you see , in Lucian , that the Epicurean , who argues only negatively , keeps his temper ; the Stoic , who has something positive to ...
... truth of them : when a man has nothing to lose he may be in good humour with his opponent . Accordingly you see , in Lucian , that the Epicurean , who argues only negatively , keeps his temper ; the Stoic , who has something positive to ...
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... truth will always bear an examination . " JOHNSON : " Yes , Sir ; but it is painful to be forced to defend it . Consider , Sir , how should you like , though conscious of your innocence , to be tried before a jury for a capital crime ...
... truth will always bear an examination . " JOHNSON : " Yes , Sir ; but it is painful to be forced to defend it . Consider , Sir , how should you like , though conscious of your innocence , to be tried before a jury for a capital crime ...
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... truth should be told , than that individuals should not be made uneasy , that it is much better that the law does not restrain writing freely concerning the characters of the dead . Damages will be given to a man who is calumniated in ...
... truth should be told , than that individuals should not be made uneasy , that it is much better that the law does not restrain writing freely concerning the characters of the dead . Damages will be given to a man who is calumniated in ...
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... truth was not so firm as to bid defiance to all attacks , so that it might be shot at as much as people chose to attempt , and yet remain unhurt . JOHNSON : " Then , Sir , it would not be shot at . Nobody attempts to dispute that two ...
... truth was not so firm as to bid defiance to all attacks , so that it might be shot at as much as people chose to attempt , and yet remain unhurt . JOHNSON : " Then , Sir , it would not be shot at . Nobody attempts to dispute that two ...
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