Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one... The Spectator - Side 1321726Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 522 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more... | |
| 1831 - 364 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention on the rack, and one trick needs a great many more of... | |
| 1899 - 704 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are a ware. TilMtoH. Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Truth is as impossible to be soiled... | |
| Goodloe Harper Bell - 1900 - 620 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man 's invention upon the rack,' and' one trick needs a great many more... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits say thou would'st, Trim, quoth my lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more... | |
| Abram N. Coleman - 1903 - 310 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention on the rack, and one needs a great many more of the... | |
| Joseph Elias Hayne - 1905 - 202 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware." We are informed that "the greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy prejudice, and her constant... | |
| William Alexander Cocke - 1908 - 536 sider
...is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 sider
...always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand and sits sovereign remedy against temptation.-^ Fénelon. TEM awnre ; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention on the rack, and one trick needs a... | |
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