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Can these dry stones live ! ' Yes , I think , they not only live — they speak . They bear witness . There is truth in that poetic title borne by some medieval architect —'magister de vivis lapidibus'— the master of living stones ' .
Can these dry stones live ! ' Yes , I think , they not only live — they speak . They bear witness . There is truth in that poetic title borne by some medieval architect —'magister de vivis lapidibus'— the master of living stones ' .
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Yet the last sentence is not without its impressiveness ; especially when one thinks how many writers , not least in our own day , have set themselves to do exactly the reverse -- to weaken faith in decency and confidence in truth ; and ...
Yet the last sentence is not without its impressiveness ; especially when one thinks how many writers , not least in our own day , have set themselves to do exactly the reverse -- to weaken faith in decency and confidence in truth ; and ...
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Its paramount duty is truth . But though it should tell nothing but the truth , it cannot possibly tell the whole truth . It must select , or die of its own unwieldy corpulence . The thoughts of a single day might burst a whole volume ...
Its paramount duty is truth . But though it should tell nothing but the truth , it cannot possibly tell the whole truth . It must select , or die of its own unwieldy corpulence . The thoughts of a single day might burst a whole volume ...
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| Titlu | The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] Goldsmith |
| Autor | Frank Laurence Lucas |
| Editor | Macmillan, 1958 |
| Lungime | 354 pagini |
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