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... truth , and confequently fubjects them to grofs mistakes : for they will not love truth as fuch ; they will love it only when it happens to be furprizing and uncommon , which few important truths are . velty will be the predominant ...
... truth , and confequently fubjects them to grofs mistakes : for they will not love truth as fuch ; they will love it only when it happens to be furprizing and uncommon , which few important truths are . velty will be the predominant ...
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... Truth , naked , undifguifed , cannot , we will ac- knowledge with them , be ridiculed ; but Truth , like every thing elfe , may be misrepresented : it is the bufinefs of ridicule therefore to difguife her ; to drefs her up in a strange ...
... Truth , naked , undifguifed , cannot , we will ac- knowledge with them , be ridiculed ; but Truth , like every thing elfe , may be misrepresented : it is the bufinefs of ridicule therefore to difguife her ; to drefs her up in a strange ...
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... truth . Nay , every single lye is attended with fuch a variety of circumftances , which lead to a detection , that it is often dif- covered . The ufe generally made of a lye is to cover a fault ; but as the end is feldom anfwered , we ...
... truth . Nay , every single lye is attended with fuch a variety of circumftances , which lead to a detection , that it is often dif- covered . The ufe generally made of a lye is to cover a fault ; but as the end is feldom anfwered , we ...
Inhalt
Diversity of Geniuses | 36 |
The Manners of a Bookfeller | 42 |
Epicuruss Character | 48 |
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