The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell [and] GoldsmithMacmillan, 1958 - 354 pagini |
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... truth; but the whole truth — never. Even Montaigne sometimes misleads; even Rousseau, though unblushing in his exhibitionism, is quite untrustworthy. Pepys, indeed, and Boswell, journalizing for themselves alone, do convince us; but ...
... truth; but the whole truth — never. Even Montaigne sometimes misleads; even Rousseau, though unblushing in his exhibitionism, is quite untrustworthy. Pepys, indeed, and Boswell, journalizing for themselves alone, do convince us; but ...
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... truth about him so far as that truth can be found . Such is the price of fame . If one does not wish to pay , one should avoid becoming famous— it is seldom difficult ; but it is idle to aim both at being known and at being unknown . In ...
... truth about him so far as that truth can be found . Such is the price of fame . If one does not wish to pay , one should avoid becoming famous— it is seldom difficult ; but it is idle to aim both at being known and at being unknown . In ...
Pagina 271
... 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 vol- ume of autobiography ...
... 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 vol- ume of autobiography ...
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